Linda Cavaletti

Linda Cavaletti is a biologist with long expertise in isolation and cultivation of strains for natural products discovery. Her professional carrer started in the Lepetit Research Center (then Biosearch Italia, then Vicuron Pharmaceuticals), where she could discover new microbial taxa, including previously uncultivated strains. Since 2008, she joined FIIRV focusing her activity on the generation of a FIIRV proprietary strain library. After diagnoses concerning family members, she developed a deep interest in celiac disease and its pathogenesis, culminating in a project for discovery of a new glutenase by acidophilic actinomycete strains. Since that time, she is leader of the Celiac Disease project in FIIRV, which led to discovery of E40, and its patenting in 2011. Since 2017, she collaborates with Nemysis for E40 development.