New Member Mini-Bios

Felix Yarovinsky
University of Rochester Medical Center [READ MORE]

Larissa Laine, PhD, Finnish institute for Health and Welfare, Expert Microbiology Unit, Helsinki, Finland Larissa Laine, Ph.D Dr. Laine received her Ph.D in parasitology and biochemistry from the University of Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom. She studied the biochemical, structural, and functional properties of the Plasmodium falciparum pyruvate dehydrogenase complex. She [READ MORE]

Ahmed Kabil, University of British Columbia, Biomedical Research Centre, McNagny Lab, Vancouver, Canada Ahmed Kabil is a PhD candidate working in the Biomedical Research Centre at the University of British Columbia. He obtained a high honors BASc in applied science from the University of Toronto. Ahmed Kabil’s research focuses on [READ MORE]

Rama K. Gurram, Ph.D. Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA Dr. Gurram received his Ph.D. in Immunology from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, under the mentorship of Dr. Javed N. Agrewala. There, he worked on understanding the mechanism [READ MORE]

Katherine A. Waugh, Ph.D. Department of Pharmacology, University of Colorado – Anschutz Medical Campus, USA Dr. Waugh is an Instructor at the Linda Crnic Institute for Down Syndrome and the Department of Pharmacology on the University of Colorado – Anschutz Medical Campus, USA. She studies aberrant interferon signaling in Down [READ MORE]

Shehneela Baseer Hannover Medical School, Germany Shehneela is doing her Ph.D. at Hannover Medical School, Germany. Her Ph.D. research focuses on the developing a deep understanding of the immune response in hepatitis B vaccinated non-responsive individuals using a knowledge-driven approach. She did my Master’s in Bioinformatics at Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, [READ MORE]

Erwin Le Scolan CytomX Therapeutics, South San Francisco, USA Dr. Le Scolan has over 15 years of research experience in immuno-oncology. He joined CytomX in 2017 as a Scientist in Cancer Immunology. Dr. Le Scolan initiated and is currently leading CytomX’s conditionally active cytokine therapeutics program. Prior to CytomX, Dr. [READ MORE]

Venkat Giri Magupalli Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA Venkat Giri Magupalli is an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School in the Department of Pediatrics. His research focuses on innate immune recognition of pathogenic and sterile signals, with a special emphasis on the mechanistic basis of signal recognition [READ MORE]

Olivia Luise Gern Veterinary University of Hannover, Germany Olivia Luise Gern obtained her Bachelor’s degree in Life Science in Lille, France, where she focused on cell biology and physiology. Since she was always primarily interested in infectious diseases, she continued with a bi-national Master of Science in Infection Biology between [READ MORE]

Damian Bertheloot, Ph.D. Institute of Innate Immunity, Bonn, Germany Dr. Damien Bertheloot is passionate about the signature dying cells leave behind and the impact these molecular patterns have on the immune system. His first taste for the world of innate immunity came from an internship in the laboratory of Prof. [READ MORE]