Associate Professor of Medicine and Population Health Sciences
Weill Cornell Medical College
Disclosure: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Dr. Mirella Salvatore is an infectious diseases physician and Associate Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine. She obtained her M.D. degree from the Catholic University in Rome, Italy and completed her medicine residency and fellowship training at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. At Mount Sinai she also completed a postdoctoral fellowship training studying host responses to influenza virus infection. As a physician scientist, Dr. Salvatore has focused her NIH funded research on the development of novel platforms for influenza vaccines. She is also leading studies of influenza virus pathogenesis and therapy in the immunocompromised human host. More recently she has been interested by the identification of factors affecting the progression of COVID-19. She has authored or co-authored over 45 peer-reviewed manuscripts. She was a member of the IDSA Research Committee and of the ISTM Research and Awards Committee. She is part of the Editorial Board and Associate Editor of Frontiers in Medicine and Frontiers in Public Health, section of Infectious Diseases – Surveillance, Prevention and Treatment and Editorial Board Member of Vaccines. Dr. Salvatore has served on several NIH study sections on influenza and COVID-19, and is a reviewer for many scientific journals.
