Cecilia Graziosi

Cecilia Graziosi, Ph.D., EMBA
Head of HIV Variability Unit

February 2008-present:
Head of HIV Variability Unit, Laboratory of AIDS Immunopathogenesis,
Division of Immunology and Allergy, CHUV, Lausanne.

1996-January 2008:
Research Director, Laboratory of AIDS Immunopathogenesis,
Division of Immunology and Allergy, CHUV, Lausanne.

1993-1996:
Visiting Scientist, Laboratory of Immunoregulation, NIAID, NIH, Maryland, USA.

1990-1993:
Expert, LIR, NIAID, NIH, USA.

• 1994:
  Special Achievement, US Department of Health and Human Services.
  
• 1996:
  National Institutes of Health Award of Merit.

• De Crignis E., Guglietta S., Foley B.T., Negroni M., Di Narzo A.F., Waelti Da Costa V., Cavassini M., Bart P.-A., Pantaleo G. and Graziosi C.
  Non-random distribution of cryptic repeating triplets of purines and pyrimidines (RNY)n in gp120 of HIV-1. AIDS Res. Hum. Retroviruses 2012, 28:493-504.
  
• Guglietta S., Pantaleo G. and Graziosi C.
  Long sequence duplications, repeats and palindromes in HIV-1 gp120: length variation in V4 as the product of misalignment mechanism. Virology 2010, 399:178-186.
  
• Bélair M., Dovat M., Foley B., Mayerat C., Pantaleo G. and Graziosi C.
  The polymorphic nature of HIV type 1 env V4 affects the patterns of potential N-glycosylation sites in proviral DNA at the intrahost level. AIDS Res. Hum. Retroviruses 2009, 25:199-206.
  
• Castro E., Bélair M., Rizzardi G.P., Bart P.-A., Pantaleo G. and Graziosi C.
  Independent evolution of hypervariable regions of human immunodeficiency virus type I (HIV-1) gp120: V4 as a swarm of N-linked glycosylation variants. AIDS Res. Hum. Retroviruses 2008, 24:106-113.