Mariagrazia Pizza MAE is an Italian vaccine researcher who is a professor at Imperial College London.
[2][4] She worked as Senior Scientific Director for Bacterial Vaccines at GSK plc.
[9] Her dissertation used nuclear magnetic resonance to explore the structure of opioid peptides.
Motivated by their success and advances in whole genome sequencing, Pizza started working on a Meningococcal vaccine.
[8] In 2023, Pizza joined the faculty at Imperial College London[citation needed].