Lazzaro Spallanzani National Institute for Infectious Diseases

The Lazzaro Spallanzani National Institute for Infectious Diseases (Italian: Istituto nazionale per le malattie infettive "L. Spallanzani") is an infectious disease hospital in the Italian city of Rome. The institute is named for the eighteenth-century Italian biologist Lazzaro Spallanzani.

It is the Italian national reference center for Ebola patients.[1]

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Spallanzani Institute was the first research centre in Europe to isolate the genomic sequence of SARS-CoV-2 and upload it to GenBank.[2] The team was composed of Maria Rosaria Capobianchi, Francesca Colavita, and Concetta Castilletti.[3]

The institute is working with biotech company ReiThera to test a COVID-19 vaccine candidate called GRAd-COV2, which is based on a modified chimpanzee adenovirus vector.[4]

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