Lazzaro Spallanzani National Institute for Infectious Diseases
The Lazzaro Spallanzani National Institute for Infectious Diseases is an infectious disease hospital in the Italian city of Rome. The institute is named for the eighteenth-century Italian biologist Lazzaro Spallanzani.
It is the Italian national reference center for Ebola patients.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Spallanzani Institute was the first research centre in Europe to isolate the genomic sequence of SARS-CoV-2 and upload it to GenBank.
The team was composed of Maria Rosaria Capobianchi, Francesca Colavita, and Concetta Castilletti.
