Institution

North Carolina State University

Based in

United States , Raleigh

Languages

English Italian Spanish

Short Bio

Elisa Crisci is a viro-immunologist who has studied swine virology and immunopathology since her DVM degree at the University of Bologna, Italy. Crisci completed her master’s degree and PhD, and also learned how to handle biolevel 3 zoonotic pathogens at the Centre de Recerca en Sanitat Animal (CRESA) in Barcelona, Spain. During her studies, she focused on animal host-virus interactions and virus-based vaccine vectors for animal diseases, and worked with different swine viruses including circovirus, influenza virus, porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV), foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) and classical swine fever. After her PhD, Crisci used the pig as a large animal model for immune cell therapy, and in 2013 she joined the molecular virology division of Linköping University, Sweden, to focus on human virology using techniques such as new generation sequencing. In 2017, she returned to veterinary virology and joined the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA) in Paris, France. Later in 2018, she joined the Department of Population Health and Pathobiology at NC State’s College of Veterinary Medicine as an assistant professor in virology to continue her work on virus-host interactions in pigs, with a focus on the impact of influenza and PRRSV on swine production. She promote the use of pig as biomedical animal model for human research. Currently she is using pig as biomedical model for influenza research.

Other Expertise

One Health Zoonoses Zoonotic Viruses Cellular Immunity Transboundary Animal Diseases Infectious Diseases Virology