Isabella Quinti, MD, PhD
Date of birth: 3.5.1954
E-mail: Isabella.quinti@uniroma1.it
Nationality: Italian
Sex: female
Married, 1 child
Professional status:
Associate Professor in Internal Medicine, Clinical Immunology, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. Head, Primary Immunodeficiencies Unit, Azienda Policlinico Umberto I, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
The major research areas:
Primary Immunodeficiencies: natural history, clinical outcome, immunoglobulin therapy. B-lymphocytes defects in primary immunodeficiencies syndromes. Vaccine. B-cell lymphoproliferative disorders. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Health-related quality of life assessment. Outcome measures.
Education
(1978) School of Medicine Degree, Sapienza University of Rome
(1981) Specialist in Allergology and Clinical Immunology, University of Rome
(1983-84) Research fellow in Pediatrics, Children Hospital, Harvard University, Boston, Ma.
(1985) Ph.D. in Clinical Immunology, University of Bari.
Career
(1986-2002) Assistant Professor in Clinical Immunology, University of Rome
(1993-94) Visiting Professor at the Virology Department, Naval Medical Research Unit n.3 (NAMRU3)
(2001 up to now) Professor in Clinical Immunology, Dpt of Clinical Medicine, University of Rome "La Sapienza"
(2015 up to now) Associate Professor in Internal Medicine, Clinical Immunology, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.
2001 up to now: Head of the Primary Immunodeficiency Unit, Head of Hereditary Angioedema Unit, Rome, Italy
Scientific Activity
2001 up to now: Responsible for Italian Network on CVID (IPINET: Italian Primary Immunodeficiency Network)
2008-11: Responsible for the Sapienza Research Unit of the Medium-scale focused research Collaborative Research Project, founded by the European Commission:
“Pathophysiology and Natural Course of Primary Antibody Deficiency (PAD) Syndromes (EURO-PADnet).
2009 up to now: Coordinator of the Project: Role of antibiotic prophylaxis in patients with primary antibody deficiencies and COPD, founded by AIFA (Italian Agency of Drugs)
2010 up to now: Head of the Italian Jeffrey Modell Foundation Research and Diagnostic Centre
Co-author of 189 scientific publications published in peer-reviewed international journals.
H Index: 38