Dr Tania Crucitti

I am a clinical biologist and infectious disease researcher with work experience in clinical trials, laboratory diagnostics and biomedical research. The focus of my research is prevention, diagnosis and treatment of sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including HIV. I collaborate in clinical trials focused on HIV and STI prevention, conduct evaluations of novel diagnostic assays for STIs, and perform research on STI pathogens, on the genital microbiome, and on inter- and intra-microbial and host-microbial interaction.

I worked as technical expert for the European Commission in Mozambique where I was assigned to the laboratory department of the Mozambican National Control Program for AIDS and STIs. Prior to joining the Institut Pasteur network in 2018, I served as head of the STI reference laboratory at the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp, Belgium. In Belgium I was member of the working group producing the 2019 national guidelines on diagnosis and management of gonorrhoea and syphilis. I initiated research in bacteriology focused on Treponema pallidum and Haemophilus ducreyi at the Centre Pasteur du Cameroun. Currently, I’m based at the Institut Pasteur de Madagascar, heading the unit of experimental bacteriology and setting up research on STIs.