Anna Granato graduated in Biological Sciences in 1991 from the University of Padua. In 1998 she was awarded a Ph.D. in Clinical Pathophysiology at the same University  and, in 2004, she specialized in Clinical Biochemistry and Clinical Molecular Biology. Until 2005 she carried out research activities at the Institute of Internal Medicine and the Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences of  Padua University Hospital.

Her work is aimed at developing and applying new biomolecular methods to diagnose of honey bee infectious diseases (viral, bacterial and fungal) and to study emergent pathogens and parasites of honey bee.