Biography:
Maira Zorzan graduated in Medical Biotechnologies at Padua University, Italy in 2014. She worked for 4 years in the field of Neurosciences at the Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Padua and in 2018 she earned her PhD degree. In 2018, she joined the Laboratory for zoonosis, emerging and remerging pathogens, National and FAO Reference Centre for rabies at the Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie in Padua as a postdoctoral research fellow. In 2020, the Italian Ministry of Health awarded her as principal investigator of a Starting Grant focused on the development of novel in vitro systems to replace animal use in rabies diagnostic interlaboratory trials.
Title : An innovative in vitro system to replace in vivo experiments for rabies diagnostic interlaboratory trials a sustainable application of the 3Rs principle