Ramon y Cajal Resercher.
Graduated in Biology from the University of Vigo (2012). He obtained his Ph.D. from University College Dublin (UCD, 2017) focusing on the immunological impacts of the bio-nano interactions of nanomaterials with differing biomolecular surfaces and shapes, highlighting the differential shape-dependent modulation of antibody responses in rodent models. He worked as a Postdoc at the Center for Infectious Medicine in Karolinska Institutet (2021) depicting the phenotypical and functional landscape of cytotoxic CD8+ T cells in different viral infections and cancer. In such contexts, the understanding of T cell exhaustion in tissue-resident cells was one of the main research interests. He joined BNT and CIQUS in 2021 (awarded a RyC contract 2022-call associated with the Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Department at USC), and works in developing approaches to understand the immunomodulatory capabilities of multiple novel nanomaterials with the aim of designing smart nano-structures capable of inducing specific T cell responses in vitro and ex vivo.
Dr. André Perez-Potti
