Current Position

Associate Professor

Education and Experience

Chiara Brachelente obtained her DVM degree with honours (1999) and her PhD (2005) at the University of Perugia, Italy. Between 2002 and 2005, she completed an ECVP residency and advanced training in veterinary pathology and dermatopathology at the University of Bern, Switzerland. She became a Diplomate of the European College of Veterinary Pathologists (ECVP) in 2005.
She is currently Associate Professor of General Pathology and Veterinary Anatomic Pathology at the Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Perugia. Her academic and diagnostic activity focuses particularly on veterinary dermatopathology, histopathology and cytology of skin diseases and tumours in companion animals.
She is President of the International Society of Veterinary Dermatopathology (ISVD) and Chair of the Histopathology Section of the European College of Veterinary Dermatology (ECVD).

Teaching Experience

Chiara Brachelente has extensive experience in undergraduate, postgraduate and specialist education in veterinary pathology, dermatopathology, immunopathology and oncology.
Since 2013, she has been Director of the ECVP Training Centre at the University of Perugia, where she coordinates the specialist training of residents in veterinary pathology. Since 2021, she has also contributed to an international dermatopathology training programme for residents of the European and Asian Colleges of Veterinary Dermatology and for dermatology residents from Latin America.
She has been teaching dermatopathology and clinicopathological correlation in the ESAVS Small Animal Dermatology programme since 2020, including courses held in Europe and Asia. She regularly lectures in international postgraduate courses, workshops, master’s programmes and scientific meetings and is actively involved in the training of ECVP and ECVD residents.

Research

Her main research interests include inflammatory and immune-mediated skin diseases, tumour immunology and comparative oncology, with particular emphasis on canine melanoma as a model for human disease.
She has coordinated and participated in several nationally and internationally funded research projects and is the author or co-author of numerous peer-reviewed publications in veterinary pathology, dermatology and oncology.