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Rafael Correa Rocha

Laboratory of Immune-regulation, Institute of Health Research, Madrid, Spain.

Biography

Rafael Correa Rocha has completed his first PhD in Biology at the Universidad Complutense of Madrid (Spain) in 2004. His thesis was awarded with the National Prize of Doctorate 2005. He joined the ISREC (Epalinges, Switzerand) as a Post-doctoral researcher and afterwards, he obtained a position as Assistant Professor at the Hopitaux Universitaires de Genève (Switzerland). He joined the IISGM of Madrid as a Senior Scientist in February 2008. He completed a second PhD in Medicine at the Universidad Autónoma of Madrid in 2014. At present, he is the Head of the Laboratory of Immune-regulation at IISGM. He has published more than 40 papers in reputed journals.

Abstract

Abstract : HIV infection of human regulatory T cells (Treg) downregulates Foxp3 expression and produces a loss of the suppressive capacity of these cells