Giuseppe Del Giudice

Global Head Translational Medicine, Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics Research Center, Italy

Session

He participated in the "Infectious deseases" session.

Biography

Giuseppe Del Giudice received his M.D. degree from the University of Milan and a Specialization in Infectious Diseases degree from the same University. He spent 12 years in Switzerland studying the immune response to malaria parasites, first at the University of Geneva and then at the University of Lausanne. At the same time he became medical officer of the World Health Organization, Division of Communicable Diseases.

In 1996 he returned to Italy as Senior Research Director at the Research Center of Chiron Vaccines, in Siena (Tuscany). He is now Global Head of Translational Medicine at Novartis Vaccines & Diagnostics (formerly Chiron Vaccines), Siena, where he supervises projects on vaccine development against several pathogens as well as activities related to vaccine delivery.

Giuseppe Del Giudice is author and co-author of over 200 publications and member of several international societies and scientific boards.