Elena Bravo
Istituto Superiore di Sanità , Italy
Biography
Elena Bravo, after graduation in Biochemistry at the University “La Sapienza” in Rome and postgraduate formation in Clinical Chemistry, focused her research on metabolism of cholesterol. She managed several projects contributing to knowledge on the mechanisms by which lipophilic soluble macronutrients and micronutrients carried by postprandial lipoproteins influence foam cells formation and macrophages inflammatory status. She is actually Senior Researcher at the National Health Institute, delegate of the Italian representative in European legal consortium BBMRI-ERIC; member of the BBMRI.it steering committee and of the international ISO-Technical Committee 276 on Biotechology, and co-chair of the BRIF Journal editors subgroup.