Mauro Javier Cortez Veliz
University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Biography
Mauro Javier Cortez obtained his biomedical degree at University of Antofagasta, Chile, in 2000. He went to Sao Paulo, Brazil to pursue a doctorate, which he obtained in 2004. He worked as a postdoc at Federal University of Sao Paulo at the Microbiology and Immunology Department, until 2007. He arrived at the Department of Microbial Pathogenesis in Yale University and then moved to the Department of Cell Biology & Molecular Genetics at the University of Maryland, until 2011. In 2011, he returned to Brazil to work as assistant professor, at The University of Sao Paulo, working in the Leishmania model.
Abstract
Abstract : Role of the CD200-CD200R interaction in infection of macrophages by Leishmania