Elena E. Giorgi, PhD
Senior Staff Scientist, Gilbert Lab, Biostatistics, Bioinformatics and Epidemiology Program
Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutch
Research area includes developing mathematical and statistical models to study viral evolution, immune correlates in infectious diseases (HIV, HCV, and SARS-CoV-2 in particular), and vaccine design.
Education
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2011, PhD (Applied Mathematics)
University of Southern California, 2006, MS (Biostatistics)
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1999, MS (Mathematics)
Università di Pisa, 1997, Laurea (Mathematics)
Research Interests
Viral evolution, diversity, and sequence analysis
Antibody evolution and antibody resistance
Recombination
Phylogenetics
Vaccine design
Current Projects
Recombination in HIV and Coronaviruses
BNAb escape in mother-to-child HIV transmissions
B-cell responses in pediatric SARS-CoV-2 infections
Timing of infection in the AMP clinical trials
HVTN sieve analyses
Epigraph immunogen design for HCV vaccine studies