Margherita Sosio

Biography

Margherita Sosio is co-founder and Microbiology Director at Naicons Srl, Milan.  She brings more than 30 years of senior-level leadership experience in the biotech industry focused on anti-infective research and drug development. She has competencies in microbial genetic and molecular biology, in particular in genetics of antibiotic producers, including identification and characterization of antibiotic biosynthetic and resistance genes, screening of natural products for antimicrobial activity, and in characterization and development of antibiotics.

Among her accomplishments and responsibilities, she has contributed to the dalbavancin production process, to the optimisation of a production process for a new antibiotic and she played a leading role in the preparation of a master cell bank for a marketed antibiotic.

Among her accomplishments and responsibilities, she has contributed to the dalbavancin production process, to the optimisation of a production process for a new antibiotic and she played a leading role in the preparation of a master cell bank for a marketed antibiotic.

Margherita holds a degree in Agricultural Sciences from the University of Milan and conducted her postdoctoral research at ETH, Zuerich. Before joining Naicons in 2007, she held positions as a research scientist in different pharma companies including Biosearch Italia-Vicuron in Gerenzano (Italy), where she held various positions with increasing responsibility over her 20-year tenure.  

Margherita is the co-author of over ninety scientific papers and seven patent applications in the field of antibiotics.

RSC affiliations

• Editorial board, Natural Product Reports (NPR)