Developed skills and lines of research

Paola Brun earned her degree in Pharmacy in 2001 and her PhD in 2005, both from the University of Padua, in the Department of Gastroenterological and Surgical Sciences. From 2010 to 2020 she was a researcher and Assistant Professor in Microbiology at the University of Padua. She became Assistant Professor in 2021 in the same university.

For the Italian Cystic Fibrosis Research Foundation, her projects covered the thematic of quorum sensing, the communication signals exchanged among pathogenic bacteria that enable them to develop resistance. Her work focuses on developing new drugs for an innovative therapeutic approach to respiratory infections, shifting away from killing microbes with antibiotics to disarming their pathogenicity while preserving the lung microbiota. She is the author of over 80 publications in international journals, with nearly 4,000 citations and a Google Scholar h-index of 33.

Projects funded by FFC Ricerca as Principal Investigator or as Research Manager

FFC#11/2020
Disrupting Pseudomonas aeruginosa Quorum Sensing signalling in Cystic Fibrosis patients as a new frontier for antibacterial therapy