Dr. Marilia Pinzone joined the Department of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases as an instructor in July 2024. She is an infectious disease physician-scientist with a research interest in studying how HIV reservoirs are formed and maintained as well as investigating the factors that drive poor immunological recovery and non-AIDS comorbidities in people living with HIV infection. After completing her residency in Italy, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania in the O’Doherty Lab. She then came to WashU to complete her Infectious Diseases Fellowship. At Washington University, Dr. Pinzone joined the Shan lab, where she is currently interested in identifying new mechanisms that drive chronic inflammation during ART. Her clinical time is spent on the general inpatient ID service as well as in the outpatient setting, where she sees patients (mostly people living with HIV) in the ID clinic. Her key interests are outpatient care of PLWH, infectious diseases and metabolic complications of HIV.
Infectious Diseases Clinic
620 South Taylor Ave., Suite 100
St. Louis, MO 63110
- Medical Degree: University of Catania Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, Cantania, Sicily
- Post-doctoral fellowship: University of Pennsylvania
- Dean’s Scholar Award 2023
- Pinzone MR, Weissman S, Pasternak AO, Zurakowski R, Migueles S, O’Doherty U. Naive infection predicts reservoir diversity and is a formidable hurdle to HIV eradication. JCI Insight 2021;150794. doi: 10.1172/jci.insight.150794.
- Venanzi Rullo E*, Pinzone MR*, Cannon L, Weissman S, Ceccarelli M, Zurakowski R, Nunnari G, O’Doherty U. Persistence of an intact HIV reservoir in phenotypically naive T cells. JCI Insight 2020;5(20):e133157. doi: 10.1172/jci.insight.133157.
- Pinzone MR, VanBelzen DJ, Weissman S, Bertuccio MP, Cannon L, Venanzi-Rullo E, Migueles S, Jones RB, Mota T, Joseph SB, Groen K, Pasternak AO, Hwang WT, Sherman B, Vourekas A, Nunnari G, O’Doherty U. Longitudinal HIV sequencing reveals reservoir expression leading to decay which is obscured by clonal expansion. Nat Commun 2019;10(1):728. doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-08431-7.