Phd in LIFE SCIENCE

email: alessandra.carattoli@uniroma1.it
phone: 0649913016
building: Viale Porta Tiburtina 28 00185 Roma

BSc PhD, Alessandra Carattoli is Full Professor of General Microbiology of the Faculty of Pharmacy and Medicine, Department of Molecular Medicine, Sapienza University of Rome
She studied Biological Science at the Sapienza University of Rome, where continued with her PhD in in Molecular and Cellular Biology.
1997-2012 Senior Scientist Department of Bacteriology, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome
2013-2018 Research Director Department of Infectious Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome
Authored >160 papers in Pub-Med
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/
orcid.org/0000-0002-6120-6526

H-index 75
i10-index 165

Total citations 28260
https://scholar.google.it/citations?user=f4v5mlgAAAAJ&hl=en

She developed innovative methodologies for rapid characterization of antibiotic-resistant bacteria and plasmids. She invented the worldwide known and adopted PCR-Based Replicon-Typing (2005, now PBRT-KIT 2.0 produced and commercialized by DIATHEVA S.R.L.), pMLST (2009, curator at the MLST web site at the Oxford Univerity UK) and PlasmidFinder (2014, curator of the database at the Genomic Center for Epidemiology at the Danish Technology University, DK) methods. She was pioneer of bacterial WGS used as a tool for identification of new resistance mechanisms and characterization of high-risk bacterial clones (in 2007, she completed the de novo sequencing of Acinetobacter baumanni strain ACICU genome; in 2014 she discovered a novel mechanism of resistance to tigecyclin; in 2017 she discovered the novel colistin resistance mcr-4 gene).

Awards
2011-Program Committee Award for outstanding abstract presentation in the area of Resistance: Mechanisms and Consequences, 51th ICAAC Chicago, USA
2013-Program Committee Award for outstanding abstract presentation in the area of Resistance: Mechanisms and Consequences, 53th ICAAC Denver, USA
2015-World's Most Influential Scientific Minds by ISI-Thompson Reuters
2016 Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics Web of Science Category Pharmacology and Toxicology
2017 Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics Web of Science Category Pharmacology and Toxicology
2018 Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics Web of Science Category Cross Fields
2021 Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics Web of Science Category Cross Fields
Commendatore Ordine di Merito della Repubblica Italiana, honour conferred on 9 Jan 2017 by the Italian President of Republic Sergio Mattarella