Maria Grazia Masucci, MD PhD
Professor of Virology

Maria Grazia Masucci is since 1997 Professor of Virology at the Karolinska Institutet. She was born in Italy where she earned her medical degree in 1977 and specialization in Experimental Oncology in 1980 at the University of Ferrara. She obtained her PhD in Tumor Biology at the Karolinska Institutet in 1985 and became docent in Tumor immunology in 1987. Her research aims to understand how tumor viruses reprogram the host cells to promote malignant transformation, and how cell intrinsic and immune defenses deal with infection. Her studies on virus host-cell interaction are particularly focused on perturbation of the ubiquitin protein system and on the induction of DNA damage and genomic instability. She is a member EMBO and of the Swedish Royal Academy of Science.