Prof. Ricardo Gazzinelli University of Massachusetts Medical School, USA

Ricardo Gazzinelli is a Senior Investigator at Oswaldo Cruz Foundation in Brazil, and Professor of Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, USA. He received his DVM and DSci Degrees at the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Brazil, and his postdoctoral training at the National Institute of Allergy... read moreand Infectious Diseases, USA, working on the cellular immunology of protozoan infections. Ricardo's current area of interest is to understand the role of innate immune receptors on host resistance and pathogenesis in infections with protozoan parasites. He is also interested in development of vaccines for this same category of pathogens.