Gabriel D. Victora is an
immunologist who is a recipient of the 2017
MacArthur Genius Grant
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for his research on the
adaptive immune system
The adaptive immune system (AIS), also known as the acquired immune system, or specific immune system is a subsystem of the immune system that is composed of specialized cells, organs, and processes that eliminate pathogens specifically. The ac ...
and the processes by which it adjusts its reactions to infections. He is the Laurie and Peter Grauer Professor at
Rockefeller University
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, where he heads the Laboratory of
Lymphocyte
A lymphocyte is a type of white blood cell (leukocyte) in the immune system of most vertebrates. Lymphocytes include T cells (for cell-mediated and cytotoxic adaptive immunity), B cells (for humoral, antibody-driven adaptive immunity), an ...
Dynamics, and a
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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Investigator.
Early life
Victora is the son of
Cesar Victora, an epidemiologist and professor. He moved from
Brazil
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to the United States when he was 17.
Career
Victora earned a B.M. in 1998 and M.M. in 2000, both in piano, from the
Mannes College of Music
The Mannes School of Music (), originally called the David Mannes Music School and later the Mannes Music School, Mannes College of Music, the Chatham Square Music School, and Mannes College: The New School for Music, is a Music school, music con ...
before changing the focus of his studies and earning a M.S. in immunology from the
University of São Paulo
The Universidade de São Paulo (, USP) is a public research university in the Brazilian state of São Paulo, and the largest public university in Brazil.
The university was founded on 25 January 1934, regrouping already existing schools in ...
.
[ Victora earned his PhD in 2011 from ]New York University Medical School
The New York University Grossman School of Medicine is a medical school of New York University, a private research university in New York City. It was founded in 1841 and is one of two medical schools of the university, the other being the NYU Gr ...
. From 2012 to 2016, he was a fellow at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
Whitehead may refer to:
* Whitehead (comedo), a blocked sweat/sebaceous duct of the skin
* Whitehead (bird), a small species of passerine bird, endemic to New Zealand
* Whitehead building, heritage listed residence of the principal of the Univer ...
at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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. In 2012, he earned the NIH Director's Early Independence Award for his work using two-photon microscopy to understand the changes over time of the level of diversity of antibodies in germinal center
Germinal centers or germinal centres (GCs) are transiently formed structures within B cell zone (follicles) in secondary lymphoid organs – lymph nodes, ileal Peyer's patches, and the spleen – where mature B cells are activated, prolifera ...
s.[
]
References
External links
*
*Victora Laborator
website
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
New York University alumni
Rockefeller University faculty
American immunologists
MacArthur Fellows
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