GRIMALDI ANNALISA

Annalisa Grimaldi is currently Associate Professor at Department of Biotechnology and Life Science, University of Insubria, Varese. She received from University of Milano a PhD in Evolutionary and developmental biology (2000). She obtained the National Scientific Qualification for the functions of full university professor in the in the scientific sector 05/B1 - ZOOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY (2022).
Since 1998 her research interest is focussed on the innate immune response and tissue regeneration in invertebrates with a particular interest in the investigation of molecular mechanisms underlying these processes in the leech Hirudo verbana. She is co-author of 125 peer-reviewed scientific papers published in high-impact international journals and to date, AG has participated to more than 100 national and international conferences presenting her data in form of talk and poster (h-index: 28, citations: 2300), based on Scopus database. She is associate editor of the Journals of i) Frontiers Comparative Immunology, ii) International Journal of Molecular Sciences and iii) Invertebrate Survival (ISJ) journals. She is co-founder of the start-up Italian Leech Farm spinoff of University of Insubria (march 2021). She is Italian board member of Association of Developmental and Comparative Immunobiology (IADCI).