Gabriel D. Victora is an
immunologist who is a recipient of the 2017
MacArthur Genius Grant
The MacArthur Fellows Program, also known as the MacArthur Fellowship and commonly but unofficially known as the "Genius Grant", is a prize awarded annually by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation typically to between 20 and 30 ind ...
for his research on the
adaptive immune system and the processes by which it adjusts its reactions to infections. He is the Laurie and Peter Grauer Associate Professor at
Rockefeller University
The Rockefeller University is a private biomedical research and graduate-only university in New York City, New York. It focuses primarily on the biological and medical sciences and provides doctoral and postdoctoral education. It is classif ...
, where he heads the Laboratory of
Lymphocyte Dynamics.
Early life
Victora is the son of
Cesar Victora
Cesar G. Victora (born 1952) is a Brazilian-born epidemiologist, academic and specialist in child health and nutrition. He is an Emeritus Professor of Epidemiology at the Federal University of Pelotas and holds honorary appointments at the Unive ...
, an epidemiologist and professor. He moved from
Brazil to the United States when he was 17.
Career
Victora earned a B.M. in 1998 and M.M. in 2000, both in piano, from the
Mannes College of Music before changing the focus of his studies and earning a M.S. in immunology from the
University of São Paulo.
[ 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. 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.][
]
References
External links
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*Victora Laborator
website
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
New York University alumni
Rockefeller University faculty
American immunologists
MacArthur Fellows
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