Margarida Saraiva
Immunology
SPI
Portugal
Biography
Margarida Saraiva obtained a degree in Biochemistry in 1997 by Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto, Portugal. After 4 years (1999-2002) of research on Poxvirus Immune Evasion, in Antono Alcami’s lab, at Cambridge University (UK), Margarida was awarded her PhD. She then moved to Anne O’Garra’s lab, at the National Instiute for Medical Research (London), where she investigated the molecular mechanisms that regulate the expression of Interleukin-10 by immune cells. In 2007, Margarida returned to Portugal and joined the Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS) at Universidade do Minho (Braga), as a Ciência 2007 fellow. Since June 2015, Margarida leads the Immune Regulation group at IBMC (Porto), dedicated to the study of host and pathogen molecular mechanisms in place during the innate immune response to mycobacteria.
Research Interest
Biochemistry Pathogen molecular mechanisms
