She also directs the Analytical and Formulation Unit for the Sabin Vaccine Development Program at Texas Children?s Hospital and BCM. Dr. Curti previously was a Research Scientist at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) where she was working on new antigens discovery for the Malaria Vaccine Development Program. She is a native of Torino, Italy, where she obtained her degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in 2000, followed by her Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of Leeds in United Kingdom, in 2005. She completed her post-doctoral training in Molecular Biology in 2009 at the National Institutes of Health, Maryland.