Innate immunity and tissue remodelling
Patrizia Rovere-Querini
Email: rovere.patrizia@hsr.it
Location: DIBIT1 A1, Floor 2, Room 11
Group Leader, Innate immunity and tissue remodeling
Patrizia Rovere Querini is an internist and immunologist with over 20 years of experience in scientific research. She is specialised in the mechanisms linking tissue damage to persistent low-grade inflammation in complex chronic human diseases.
Her interest in complexity is revealed in various fields of scientific research, including the mechanisms driving muscle mass loss in elderly patients (particularly in conditions of nutritional excess), the immunology of conception and pregnancy, and the development of complex digital systems for managing comorbid patients.
She is the author and co-author of over 360 publications in peer-reviewed international scientific journals, cited more than 24,500 times. With an H-index of 84, she ranks among the most cited Italian scientists in the fields of immunology and internal medicine (data from Scopus, November 2024).
2018 National Academic Qualification as Full Professor of Internal Medicine, Ministry of Education, Italy
2008 National Academic Qualification as Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, Ministry of Education, Italy
2002 Specialist Diploma in Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan (with honors)
2000 PhD in Cellular and Molecular Biology, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan / Open University, London
1995 Board Certified Medical License, Milan, Italy
1994 Degree in Medicine, University of Milan (with honors), Italy
2013 Chair (with Nathalie Franc, The Scripps Research Institute), Gordon Research Conference "Apoptotic Cell Recognition & Clearance" June 23-28, 2013 University of New England, Biddeford, ME
2011 Bates College in Lewiston, ME
2000 Research Award of the Italian Society of Internal Medicine and Aventis Foundation
1999 Cecilia Cioffrese Award for cancer research, awarded by the Fondazione Carlo Erba
1998 Roche Prize for Research in Immunology, awarded by the Italian Society of Immunology
1988 & 1995 "A. Origlia " Study Award, awarded by the Italian Union of Merchants, Milan
2023-date Director of the Unit of Internal Medicine (Unità Operativa di Medicina Generale 2 - Medicina indirizzo Salute Metabolica e Invecchiamento), IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, Milano, Italy
2021-date Director of the Strategic Project “Primary Care–Hospital Integration”, IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, Milano, Italy
2019-date Director, Post-Graduate School of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, San Raffaele Vita Salute University, Milano Italy
2013-date Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, San Raffaele Vita Salute University, Milano Italy
2013-date Group Leader, Laboratory of Innate Immunity and Tissue remodeling, Division of Immunology, Transplantation & Infectious Diseases, IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, Milano, Italy
2018-2023 President of the Joint Commission (teachers - students) of the Master's Degree Course in Biotechnology and Medical Biology. San Raffaele Vita Salute University, Milano Italy
2013-2023 Coordinator of the Clinical Area, Autoimmunity & Gender Medicine, Department of Medicine, IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, Milano, Italy
2008-2013 Project Leader, Cancer Immunotherapy and Gene Therapy Program, DIBIT, IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, Milano, Italy
2000-2008 Physician Scientist, Cancer Immunotherapy and Gene Therapy Program, DIBIT, IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, Milano, Italy
1998-2000 Post Doctoral Fellow (Mario e Valeria Rindi Fellowship granted by the Italian Foundation for Cancer research) Cancer Immunotherapy and Gene Therapy Program, DIBIT, IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, Milano, Italy
1995-1998 Post Doctoral Fellow, Centre d'Immunologie INSERM-CNRS de Marseille-Luminy, Marseille, France