Dr Massimo Mentasti

Massimo is a Senior Scientist with several years of experience in the Public Health sector; skilled in microbiology, molecular techniques, assay design & development and biosafety. Strong research background with a PhD by Published Work focused on the design and implementation of molecular assays in the microbiology laboratory.
Massimo is part of the Specialist Antimicrobial Chemotherapy Unit at Public Health Wales (Cardiff, UK) with the role of leading the implementation of molecular assays to rapidly detect/confirm presence of antibiotic resistance markers and also part of the team developing the WGS program aimed at tackling multidrug resistance in Wales.