ReiThera has an industry-leading management team and board of directors, and receives technical guidance from an expert scientific advisory board. Our mix of commercial expertise, scientific talent and academic authority has enabled us to remain at the forefront of the development of genetic vaccines for many years.
Our Chief Executive Officer, Antonella Folgori leads a management team with decades of collective experience in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. He also leads our board of directors, which includes Paolo Pitzianti and Ilaria Cirasola.

Antonella Folgori, PhD
Chief Executive Officer
Antonella is the Chief Executive Officer and Head of Immunology. She was one of the founders of Okairos Srl.
Previously, Antonella was Group Leader at IRBM, where she focused her research interest in the field of diagnosis and prevention of chronic infectious diseases. Antonella conducted post‐doctoral studies in immunology at the Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology (IGBMC) in Strasbourg, France. She received her degree in Biology and a PhD in Molecular and Cellular Biology from the University of Rome, La Sapienza.
Antonella has strong research experience in the field of gene delivery and immunological analysis in preclinical and clinical settings.
Antonella has authored several scientific publications on subjects including peptide phage display technology, immunology, viral infections and vaccines in leading journals such as Nature Medicine and New England Journal of Medicine.

Stefano Colloca, MD
Chief Of Technology
Stefano is the Chief Of Technology. He was one of the founders of Okairos Srl.
Stefano was one of founders and the Director of Viral Vector Department at Okairos Srl. Previously, Stefano was Senior Research Fellow at IRBM, where he contributed to drug discovery programs on the hepatitis B and C viruses; and to the adenovirus vector development for therapeutic gene transfer and gene-based vaccination.
Stefano has strong research experience in the field of viral vectors for gene delivery and expertise in good manufacturing process (GMP) production and quality assessment.
Stefano has overseen and directed manufacturing campaigns of numerous GMP clinical trial materials, and is responsible for the GMP Facility at ReiThera. He has published articles in leading journals such as New England Journal of Medicine and Nature Medicine on viral and infection and vaccines.

Alessandra Vitelli, PhD
Chief Scientific Officer
Alessandra is the Chief Scientific Officer.
Alessandra became part of the Okairos team in 2009 and served as Director of the Respiratory Infection Vaccine Unit. She led the preclinical development of genetic vaccines for RSV and flu.
Prior to Okairos, she was a scientist at IRBM / Merck, which she joined in 1990, working first in hepatitis C infection and immunity, before becoming a group leader in Oncology. She contributed to the development of the chimpanzee adenovirus technology as a vaccine vector platform, and to the development of several monoclonal antibodies against infectious diseases and cancer.
In the past, Alessandra carried out research at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany, working in the field of cell-cycle regulatory genes.
She published several articles in high-impact, peer-reviewed journals on viral infection and vaccines.
Alessandra received her degree in Biology and a PhD in Biochemistry at the University of Rome, La Sapienza.

Stefania Capone
Head of Preclinical R&D
Stefania is the Head of Preclinical R&D.
She also has experience in the design and monitoring of toxicology studies.
Stefania received her degree in Biotechnology at the University of Rome, La Sapienza.
During her 20-year career in biopharmaceutical environment, she co-authored several publications in high-impact, peer-reviewed journals.

Virginia Ammendola, PhD
Qualified Person and Quality Assurance Director
Virginia is the Qualified Person and Quality Assurance Manager.
Her career has included four years at CEINGE – Biotecnologie Avanzate in Naples, Italy, where she was involved in following projects:
“Isolation and characterization of new adenoviruses”
“Identification of specific antibodies against human membranes proteins”.
Her unit’s results have supported preclinical and clinical research in infectious diseases and contributed to several publications in this field.
Virginia joined the vectorology team of ReiThera Srl in 2007. Currently, she is the Qualified Person and Quality Assurance Manager of the ReiThera facility, where she is responsible for testing and release of biological investigational medicinal products and for the GMP quality system.

Loredana Siani, PhD
Head of GMP Manufacturing
Loredana is the Head of GMP Manufacturing.
She has been working as a scientist in the biopharmaceutical industry since 2004, developing upstream and downstream processes for viral vector productions.
Currently, she is the Head of Manufacturing at Reithera’s GMP Facility. She has extensive experience in manufacturing operations conducted in compliance with Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP).
She leads the production team devoted to the development and manufacturing of investigational viral vaccines for Phase I and Phase II clinical trials.
Due to the recent Ebola outbreak, Loredana has been responsible for the manufacturing of the Ebola vaccine currently employed in clinical trials in Africa and in Europe.