Maria Santoro is an associate professor at the Laboratory of Virology, Department of Experimental Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”. She obtained the PhD in Microbiology and Medical Immunology at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, in 2006. She has been involved in research activity on viruses since 2002.
Her research interests focus on HIV infection and epidemiology, antiviral drugs, HIV/HBV/HCV drug-resistance, viral pathogenesis, viral tropism, viral evolution and dynamics, molecular diagnostics, structural and functional analysis of viral proteins.
She is a member of the steering committee of: the Italian Cohort of Antiretroviral-Naïve Patients (ICONA) Foundation; the scientific committee of the Antiviral Response Cohort Analysis (ARCA) database; the Italian PRESTIGIO (Pazienti con Infezione da HIV-1 con RESistenza agli Inibitori della Trascrittasi inversa, dell’InteGrasI e della PrOteasi virale) Registry. She was a member of the panel of the Italian guidelines for the management of HIV-1 infected patients (2012–2017).
She cooperates with many nationally and internationally recognised scientific researchers in several grants from the Italian National Institute of Health, the Ministry of University and Scientific Research, and the European Community.
