Elisa Crisci
Assistant Professor, Population Health and Pathobiology
she/her/hers
College of Veterinary Medicine
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 virus-host interactions and virus-based vaccine vectors for animal diseases, working with different swine viruses and with zoonotic viruses as influenza.
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 and in particular HIV and HSV2 infections.
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, studying swine viral diseases that are spread worldwide as influenza and PRRSV. Additional she is using the pig as translational model for human research and for its relevance as One Health zoonotic virus.
Currently she has several colaborators worldwide and participate in global veterinary education.