Bottazzi is a member of the International Advisory Committee of the Carlos Slim Health Institute in Mexico and a member of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Product Development Working Group.
The similiarities between the genetic material of SARS-Cov and SARS-COV-2, the virus that causes covid-19 is over 79,5%. In both cases, the gateway enabling the virus to reproduce in other cells, is a the molecule known as ACE2 that is located in the lungs.