Marcelo Pereira, Phd Email & Phone Number

As a São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) scholar, Marcelo conducted his undergrad and master research under the supervision of Dr. João Santana da Silva and Dr. Ana Paula Campanelli at the School of Medicine of Ribeirão Preto, FMRP-USP – São Paulo/Brazil. His focus in undergrad was understanding the modulation of immune and granulomatous inflammatory response during P. brasiliensis infection. He obtained his Masters degree in Basic and Applied Immunology there and studied the role of CD4+ and CD8+ cells in immune protection to P. brasiliensis.Marcelo obtained his Ph.D. degree in cellular and molecular biology in Dr. Dario Simōes Zamboni’s Lab at the same academic institution. At this time, his research was focused on the determination of immune response mechanisms that contribute to the control of Legionella pneumophila in a murine model.As an immunologist and now part of Dr. Lee’s Lab at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, his focus is to study how immunotherapy mediated by NK cells can tackle pediatric cancer, specially by using gene-modified NK cells by CRISPR/Cas9 Experience in areas of Immunology, Microbiology and Tumor Immunology, acting on the following topics: NK, CRISPR/Cas9, PDX models, CARs, CAR-T-CD19, TAMs, M1 and M2 macrophages, Flavonoids, Apigenin, NLRs, TLRs and pathologies related to pulmonary system as Legionella pneumophila, Legionaire's disease, protective immunity, granuloma, paracoccidioidomycosis,cellular immune response

Listed skills include Cultura Celular, Biologia Molecular, and Biologia Celular.