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Gabriel Victora
Alma mater
Awards2017 MacArthur Genius Grant
Scientific career
FieldsImmunology
Institutions

Gabriel D. Victora is an immunologist who is a recipient of the 2017 MacArthur Genius Grant for his research on the adaptive immune system and the processes by which it adjusts its reactions to infections.[1][2] He is the Laurie and Peter Grauer Assistant Professor at Rockefeller University, where he heads the Laboratory of Lymphocyte Dynamics.[3]

Victora earned his PhD in 2011 from New York University Medical School. From 2012 to 2016, he was a fellow at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[4] In 2012, he earned the NIH Director’s Early Independence Award for his work using two-photon microscopy to understand the changes over time of the level of diversity of antibodies in germinal centers.[5]

References

  1. ^ "Meet the MacArthur 'genius' tracking the evolution of our cells". STAT. October 12, 2017. Retrieved 2017-11-01.
  2. ^ "Gabriel Victora named 2017 MacArthur Fellow". News. Rockefeller University. October 11, 2017. Retrieved 2017-11-01.
  3. ^ "Gabriel D. Victora". Our Scientists: Heads of Laboratories. Rockefeller University. Retrieved 2017-11-01.
  4. ^ "Gabriel Victora, Immunologist". MacArthur Fellows Program 2017. MacArthur Foundation. Retrieved 2017-11-01.
  5. ^ "Tracking Antibody Diversity". NIH Director's Early Independence Award Highlights. National Institutes of Health. Retrieved 2017-11-01.


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