Director of Clinical Laboratory 
Prof. Giuseppe Lippi

Head
Dr. Alberto Bonizzato

Medical Staff
Dr. Diletta Onorato

Lab Technicians
Angela Bozzoli, Paola Perantoni, Fabiola Di Salvo, Beatrice Cirulli, Sara Scandola, Lucia Barra, Chiara Sica

University Staff
Debora Olioso

AOUI-VR Molecular Pathology Section

The Molecular Pathology Section was founded as the Cystic Fibrosis Laboratory, attached to the AOUI-Verona Cystic Fibrosis Center, at the turn of the decade between the 1980s and 1990s.

In 2007, the CF Laboratory became an integral part of the AOUI-Verona Analysis Laboratory (Borgo Trento site), where it is now known as the Molecular Pathology Section.

CFTR gene mutation analysis

First level

• Neonatal screening
• CF patients and their families
• Patients with idiopathic pancreatitis
• Couples planning to use assisted fertilisation
• Partners of CF sufferers and healthy carriers
• Presence of hyperechogenic foetal bowel
• Following on from chorionic villus sample for prenatal diagnosis, in couples with a 1:4 risk

Second level (NGS)

• Completion of CF patients’ genotype
• Search for possible mutations in partners of healthy carriers