Camila Consiglio, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Postdoctoral Research | Karolinska Institutet | Assistant Professor, Lund University, Sweden
“A novel approach to understanding differences in human immune responses between sexes”
Dr. Consiglio’s research provides a novel approach to understanding differences in human immune responses between sexes.
Dr. Consiglio’s research attempts to separate sex hormone effects from sex chromosome effects by studying a unique cohort of people: individuals undergoing sex-re-assignment therapy with sex hormone treatment.
Her research will offer important insights on the sex-differences in immune responses to infectious and immune-mediated diseases, and help optimize vaccine strategies and immunomodulatory therapies.
“What keeps me going is the same thing that drew me to science: curiosity. But more than curiosity, my greatest motivation to keep going is sharing the curiosity, knowledge, and the passion to learn about the immune system with teammates and colleagues. I love working in a collaborative team, and I really enjoy sharing this process of biological discovery, followed by discussions and generation of next research questions.”
About Camila Consiglio:
Dr. Consiglio studied Genetics and Molecular Biology at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
In 2020, she received her Ph.D. in Immunology and Microbiology at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY. Dr. Consiglio's postdoctoral research was in Dr. Petter Brodin’s laboratory at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, and she is now an Assistant Professor at Lund University in Sweden.