Staff Scientist
The Scripps Research Institute
La Jolla, California, United States
Roberto Aiolfi is a Scripps Research Institute Investigator specializing in pathogen-host interaction in the hematology field. He is a graduate of Vita-Salute San Raffaele in Milan, where he worked on the role of platelets in bleeding protection during viral hemorrhagic fever infections. With over eight years of experience, he has been working on uncovering the molecular mechanisms involved in the interaction between the hemostatic and immune systems and how highly pathogenic viral infections modify this finely tuned balance, leading to severe disease outcomes. He is actively working on murine models of COVID-19-associated coagulopathy, and he will present his work entitled “Thrombin activatable fibrinolysis inhibitor downregulation prevents fibrinolysis shutdown and improves disease severity in SARS-CoV-2 infected K18-hACE2 mice”. If you’d like to get in touch: raiolfi@scripps.edu