Vincenzo Torraca

Biography

Vincenzo Torraca obtained his MSc in Biology from Salerno University (Italy) and was a Marie Skłšodowska-Curie PhD fellow at Leiden University (The Netherlands) in the ITN “FishForPharma”. His PhD project focused on use of the zebrafish-Mycobacterium marinum infection model as a surrogate host-pathogen system to study human tuberculosis. His research helped to elucidate the role of chemokine signaling during macrophage recruitment, macrophage-mediated mycobacterial dissemination, and granuloma formation. He has been awarded a Marie SkÅ‚odowska-Curie Individual Fellowship to join ICL and the Mostowy lab, to investigate cell-autonomous immunity in vivo using the zebrafish infection model. His approach to study the cell biology of infection in vivo should provide insights important to control infection and treat antimicrobial resistance.

Research Interest

infection and treat antimicrobial resistance