Mirella Salvatore is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine. She obtained her M.D. cum laude from the Catholic University in Rome, Italy, and completed her internal medicine residency and fellowship in infectious diseases at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. At Mount Sinai she also completed a postdoctoral fellowship training in influenza virus. As a physician-scientist, Dr. Salvatore has focused her research on host responses and therapeutics for influenza, with a focus on the immune-compromised host, and vaccines development. More recently she has been working on the identification of host and viral predictors of progression to severe COVID-19. Dr. Salvatore is a Fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), member of the International Society for Influenza and other Respiratory Virus Diseases (ISIRV), and of the International Society for Travel Medicine (ISTM) and a member of the IDSA Research Committee and of ISTM Research and Awards Committee. She is part of the Editorial Board and Associate Editor of Frontiers in Medicine and Frontiers in Public Health, section of Infectious Diseases and Editorial Board Member of Vaccines.