Ignazio Castagliuolo

Full Professor of Microbiology and clinical microbiology at Padua University. Graduate in Medicine and surgery and specialist in Internal Medicine. Prof. Castagliuolo spent about seven years at Boston University and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, working on Clostridioedes difficile contributing to the understanding of the pathogenetic mechanisms of this Hospital acquired pathogen. He returned to Italy as Assistant Professor of Microbiology in 1999. Since then he teaches at the School of Medicine University of Padua at medical, pharmacy and nursing undergraduate students. Presently, he is the Director of the graduate School in Microbiology and Virology of Padua University and Chief Editor of "Frontiers in Molecular Medicine, section Molecular Microbes and Diseases". During his academic career, he received numerous funding from national and international research agencies including CCFA of America, MUR, Cariparo, AIRC. His research focuses on host-microbe interaction including the role of microbiota on host health.
Prof. Castagliuolo has published 170 scientific articles in high impact journals including Nat Comm, PNAS, JCI, Gastroenterology, who have accumulated more than 9,200 citations with an H-index of 56.