Luiz de Almeida

Biography

I obtained my B.Sc. in Biotechnology from the Federal University of Alfenas, Brazil, complemented by one year as an exchange student at the University of California – San Diego, USA. I worked with vaccines against the Dengue Virus and Herpes Virus as an undergraduate student. Next, I completed an M.Sc. in Basic and Applied Immunology from the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, studying a chimeric tick vaccine for bovine. Currently, I am a Ph.D. student under the supervision of Dr. Antoine Dufour, and I will be profiling the protein content of serum and biopsies from Crohn's disease patients. I will apply bioinformatics and data analysis to identify biomarkers that distinguish the inflammatory from fibrostenotic structuring disease. A precision medicine approach to Crohn's disease patients is my main goal.