Andrea Cossarizza has a degree in Medicine and Surgery, PhD in Oncology, Specialization in Clinical Pathology and Immunohematology. Full Professor of Pathology and Immunology, and Director of the School of Specialization in Clinical Pathology and Clinical Biochemistry at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia School of Medicine.
Author of >500 papers in peer-reviewed international Journals, quoted >52,000 times, with an H-index of 96. He has many years of experience in Immunology, especially in the development and use of new flow cytometric approaches. His longstanding research commitments are centered into identifying either the molecular and cellular basis or the involvement of the immune system in several diseases and infections, such as HIV/AIDS, COVID-19 or hepatitis, on the pathogenesis of sepsis, and in several physiopathological conditions, that include those of neurodegenerative origin (multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer) or human aging, either physiological (with the model of centenarians) and pathological (Down’s syndrome).
During the past decade he has built expertise in the clinical application of new methods for the identification of rare cellular subsets to patients affected by viral infections and to patients undergoing liver transplantation, as well as in patients suffering of multiple sclerosis or during septic shock.
