bovamaria@virgilio.it
maria.bova@aocardarelli.it
tel. 0039 /3383329336

Maria Bova graduated summa cum laude in 2001 with an MD degree from the University of
Naples. She received a specialization in Allergy and Clinical Immunology in 2005 at the
University of Naples. During this period she spent some months as a Postdoctoral Fellow
at the Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore,
USA. In 2009 she received a PhD in clinical and experimental pathophysiology from the
University of Naples focused on treating patients with hereditary angioedema. From 2006
to 2020 she worked as a Medical Officer in the Internal and Emergency Medicine
department at Villa MaltaHospital Sarno, Salerno, and since 2010 to 2020 she has acted
as a Medical consultant at CISI (Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerca in Scienze
Immunologiche di Base e Cliniche)- University of Naples Federico II. She is a lecturer in
the Physiopathology of Allergic Diseases for Specialization in Clinical Immunology and
Allergy at University of Naples Federico II, and a general pathology lecturer for the general
practitioner and pediatric nursing registered degree at the University of Naples. Since 2021
she works at Department of Internal Medicine, Allergy and Clinical Immunology Unit,
AORN Antonio Cardarelli, Naples, Italy. Her clinical and research activity is mainly focused
on angioedema and urticaria.
She is part of the board of the EAACI Dermatology Section (in the past term she was
board secretary). She has been involved in many activities of EAACI mentorship
programme.
She has been an investigator on many clinical studies of diagnostic and therapeutic
approaches to angioedema and mastocytosis. She authored about 70 peer reviewed
articles on her research topic.