Margherita Sosio, PhD

PROJECT LEADER, Molecular Microbiology

 

Margherita received her doctoral degree in Agricultural Sciences at University of Milan and did postdoctoral work at the ETH in Zuerich. Margherita held positions as research scientist in Farmitalia Carlo Erba in Milan, Lepetit Research Center and Biosearch Italia in Gerenzano, where she became Group Leader in Microbial Genetics. For over 20 years her research interests have focussed on antibiotics and antibiotic producing strains, contributing to novel antibiotic production processes, assay development for antibiotic discovery, isolation of novel taxa of antibiotic producers  and genomics of actinomycetes. Margherita is the author of over 40 publications and patent applications in the field of antibiotics.

To contact Margherita please email margherita.sosio@ktedogen.com