Dr Daniela Maria Cirillo

Daniela Maria Cirillo is a board-certified clinical microbiologist, Head of the Emerging Bacterial Pathogen Research unit at San Raffaele Scientific Institute in Milan. Dr Cirillo is also the Director of the WHO CC in TB laboratory strengthening ITA-98 and of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases’ Collaborating Centre at Ospedale San Raffaele. Her research focuses on mechanisms of detection of resistance in Multidrug Resistant Organisms, MDROs, of nosocomial origin and mycobacteria and the application of NGS based technology in clinical microbiology. Areas of expertise include clinical bacteriology and infection control, next-generation sequencing-based diagnostic tools, diagnostic capacity building in high burden TB countries, research on new diagnostics for active TB and Infection, nosocomial infection. She and her collaborators provide technical support to more than 12 Countries in Africa, Asia and Europe. She is Co-Chair of the New Diagnostic Working Group of the Stop TB Partnership, Core Group Member of European Laboratory Initiative and the European Tuberculosis Research Initiative, Principal Investigator of the European laboratory network, ERLN-TBnet,, Elected Member of the Disease Network Coordination Committee for Tuberculosis at the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control and President of the European Society of Mycobacteriology since 2016. Dr Cirillo was awarded the G Middlebrook prize in 2017. She has contributed to several international Research Consortia: EU-Seq MyTB, ReSeq TB, Cryptic, E-detect TB, EU-PEARL, Unite4TB. Her scientific production includes more than 330 original papers published in peer-reviewed journals.