Ivan Alvarez
Professor,
Dentistry
Nobel Bio-care
Sweden
Biography
He is an assistant professor of Pathobiology at the University of Pennsylvania. He obtained his BS in Microbiology from Universidad de los Andes in 1998 and a Ph.D. in Microbiology and Immunology from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio in 2007. In addition, he completed postdoctoral training at the Centre de Recherche du Centre Hospitalier de l'Universite de Montreal. Dr. Alvarez has more than 15 years of experience in the field of neuroimmunology where he has studied disorders like Neurocysticercosis and Multiple Sclerosis (MS). For this purpose, Dr. Alvarez has integrated in vitro, in vivo, ex vivo and postmortem approaches using primary cultures of human/murine cells, animal models as well as a close collaboration with clinicians. Dr. Alvarez is a respected investigator in the CNS barriers and neuroimmunology fields and in recent years has unveiled novel pathways controlling barrier function in the CNS vasculature as well as mechanisms regulating CNS immune quiescence. He currently holds the David Torrey Career Development Award from the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada.
Research Interest
Dentistry
