Adriana Adolfi joined Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) spin-out company iiDiagnostics in 2022 working at the Liverpool Insect Testing Establishment. Her role as Technical Manager is to support partnerships with commercial and academic clients to help them developing and validating novel vector control products.

Prior to joining Liverpool Insect Testing Establishment, Adriana had been involved in academic research in the field of vector-borne diseases for over 10 years, with a specific focus on malaria. She has worked on various aspects of the biology of the malaria parasite and its mosquito vector, including transgenic technologies to modify the mosquito genome and conducting experimental mosquito infections.

Adriana received a BSc in Biological Sciences and a MSc in Cellular and Molecular Biology from the University of Catania and then completed a MSc in Molecular Parasitology and Vector Biology as part of a joint programme of the Universities of Salford, Manchester, and Keele. She obtained a PhD in Tropical Medicine from LSTM before moving to the University of California Irvine for a two-year Postdoctoral Scholar position. Adriana returned to the UK working as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at LSTM for two years before joining Liverpool Insect Testing Establishment.