Eliana Coccia

Eliana Marina Coccia is a Research Director and Head of the Microorganisms and host response: research and technological innovation Unit at the Department of Infectious Disease of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità (Rome). Her research activity focuses on immunology of infection & host-pathogen interaction. The results obtained in this research area provided important knowledge on the immune-evasion mechanisms exploited by pathogens to hijack both innate and adaptive immunity and to promote chronic inflammatory process. More recently, her knowledge and experience turn out crucial to investigate the regulation of antiviral responses in COVID-19 patients and the innate immune response induced by the new mRNA containing vaccines formulations. She is expert for Bacterial Endotoxin Working Party at European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines given her commitment in implementing and optimizing the monocyte activation test, an European Pharmacopoeia test for the detection of pyrogenic contaminant in products for human use, including vaccines. She is a co-author of over 139 papers published in international scientific journals indexed in Medline, the majority of which as the first, last, or corresponding author (Scopus). Her H-index is 45 (Scopus), with a total of 12,751 citations (Scopus). ORCID ID:0000-0002-1606-2949