Laboratory of Immunogenetics
Institute of Biomedical Sciences
University of São Paulo
P.I.: Prof. Alessandra Pontillo
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Associated professor at the Department of Immunology / ICB / USP and head of the Laboratory of Immunogenetics in the same department. Expert in innate immunity and inflammation, inflammasome, autoinflammatory diseases, immunogenetics, medical and population genetics.
Associated researchers
Technician
Dr. Vinicius Nunes Cordeiro Leal
post-doc Researcher
FAPESP founded Fellowship
​Disregulation of inflammasome' activation in neutrophil and endothelium in response to SARS-Cov-2 and contribution to severe COVID-19
Ungraduated Students
PhD Students
Mariela Estefany Gislene Vera Roa
PhD project: Analysis of inflammasome in T CD8+ lymphocytes of chronically infected HIV patients
CNPq founded Fellowship
Julia Cantoni - FAPESP Founded fellowship
Janis Bacelar - CNPq Founded fellowship
Jessica Ribeiro - applicant for FAPESP Founded fellowship
Bianca Barros - FAPESP Founded fellowship
Camilly Silva - trainee
PAST PhD & MD STUDENTS
Raylane AG Cambuì
2023 - PhD Thesis: Role of inflammasome in colorectal cancer prognosis
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Vinicius Nunes Cordeiro Leal
2021 - PhD Thesis: Genetic and functional characterization of NLRP3 in lymphocytes and monocytes of chronically infected HIV individuals
Fernanda Pereira Fernandes
2020 - MD Thesis: Analysis of inflammasome activation in HPV-associated cervical cancer
Edione Cristina dos Reis
2019 - PhD Thesis: Genetic and functional characterization of dendritic cells of HIV + patients stimulated with flagellin: implementation of the immunotherapy protocol against HIV-1
2015 - MD Thesis: Genomic profile of the HIV-1 response and implications for dendritic cells- based therapeutic vaccine for HIV
Dhemerson Souza de Lima
2019 - PhD Thesis: Genetic and functional characterization of inflammasome in response to mycobacteria and in the development of different clinical forms of pulmonary tuberculosis.
Jaine Soares Lima da Silva
2018 - MD Thesis: Analysis of the contribution of inflammasome in the pathogenesis of multiple sclerosis
Elaine Uchima Uehara
2017 - MD Thesis: Immunomodulatory activity of NO in the in vitro response of newborn and adult mononuclear cells