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Prof Lorenza Putignani achieved her first degree in Chemistry, obtained her PhD in Microbiology and Epidemiology and then as Medicine Specialty in Clinical Pathology at the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, University of Rome “Sapienza”, Rome, Italy.
Afterwards, she joined the Department of Infection and Immunity of the University of Glasgow (Scotland, UK) as a Postdoctoral Fellow, working on anaerobic protozoa biochemistry and
discovering the mitosome-like respiratory structure of Cryptosporidium. 
Once back to Italy, Prof Lorenza Putignani spent four years at the Molecular Microbiology Unit of the National Institute for Infectious Diseases (INMI), “Spallanzani” Hospital, Rome, Italy developing researches on Proteobacteria-related starvation models and also serving as Bio-Security Officer.
After this period, she started her independent Research Group at the Bambino Gesù Hospital, IRCCS of Rome, under the supervision of Prof Bruno Dallapiccola, also serving as Head of the Unit of Parasitology and then founding the Unit of Microbiomics to convert translational research on human microbiome into standardized diagnostic solutions for targeted and agnostic metagenomics, metabolomics and metaproteomics into a framework of systems medicine, organizing the acquisition of high technological proteomic and sequencing platforms. 
She also founded at OPBG the program on Pediatric Faecal Microbiota Transplantation (FMT in 2017), for various pediatric indications.
She’s currently Associate Professor in Microbiology and Clinical Microbiology, 06/MEDS-03, previous MED-07, at the Link Campus University of Rome since the Academic Year 2024-2025, handling Courses at the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, Nursing Sciences, Radiology, Pharmacy, Physiotherapy, Osteopathy. She’s Board Member of the PhD Program: "Network Oncology and Precision Medicine", University of Rome "La Sapienza"; external Scientific Supervisor of a PhD Project in "Advances in Infectious diseases, microbiology, legal medicine and public health sciences", University of Rome, Sapienza, titled “Stratification of gut microbiota profiling based on autism neuropsychological features”, Academic Year 2023-2024/2024-2025/2025-2026, Cycle 39; external Scientific Supervisor of a PhD Project in "Advances in Infectious diseases, microbiology, legal medicine and public health sciences", University of Rome, Sapienza, titled “Identification of gut microbiota-associated biomarker sas precision medicine tools for inflammatory bowel disease“, Academic Year 2024-2025/2025-2026/2026-2027, Cycle 40.
She’s currently coordinating several Projects, including the Italian Network IDEA Project on Human Microbiome (https://retepediatricaidea.it/, 2024-2027), of all Pediatric Italian IRCCS Institutes, to develop translational research programs and clinical trials in microbiomics by a Hub-spot system for centralized microbiomics activities at OPBG Hospital. She’s author of more than 250 peer-reviewed scientific papers in impactful journals on translational and clinical microbiomics, microbiology, parasitology, mass spectrometry and next generation sequencing and has also participated to the drafting of several International and National Guidelines and Consensus lines for the standardization of microbiome-related diagnostic and clinical solutions. Her scientific production is characterised by H Index 62 and 56, based on Google Scholar and Scopus citation rates, respectively.

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