Valeria Antonietta Pietropaolo is co-author of 103 publications and 4 book chapters and she has attended numerous national and international conferences with oral communications and Poster.

Since 1991, she places care activities at the Laboratory of Clinical Microbiology of “Umberto I Hospital”, Rome in the Special Service of Microbiological Analysis.

She coordinates and conducts research at the Laboratory of Virology, Microbiology Section, Department of Public Health and Infectious Diseases, "Sapienza" University of Rome and the main lines of research are in the field of Human Polyomaviruses. Specifically, Her current research interests are focused on Human Polyomavirus JC and on Merkel Cell Polyomavirus, aetiological agents of Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy and Merkel cell carcinoma, respectively

E-mail: valeria.pietropaolo@uniroma1.it