Biography:

Valeria Blanda obtained a Master’s Degree in Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Palermo (Italy) in 2006. She is Specialist in Clinical Pathology and Clinical Biochemistry, University of Naples “Federico II” (Italy) and PhD in Cell Biology, University of Palermo.

She is researcher at the Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Sicilia (Italy) since 2009 and expert of Babesiosis for the World Organization for Animal Health – WOAH since 2021. In 2015 and 2019, she was appointed as expert in the Belgian evaluation program for Human Microbiology National Reference Centers assignment.

Her research areas include zoonotic agents, tick borne pathogens, diagnostic technique development.