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What is your name?
Alejandra Urioste
What is your current position?
Research Fellow
Which institute and country do you work in?
University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB), School of Medicine, Surgery Department
What is your home country?
Argentina
What are your research interests?
Immunology, Transplantation, Genetics
Tell us about yourself and your research interests:
I am a biochemist and pharmacist from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. In the future, I see myself as an established independent transplant immunology researcher. I would love to share my experience and learning more about transplant immunology. As a resident fellow at “Pedro de Elizalde” Children’s Hospital, I was the very first resident to take the position in a new residency training program in the hospital. I took my first steps in the Clinical Immunology field with my research on HIV vertical infection and the study of the development of the immune system in the context of a chronic infection, focused on immunosenescence. Moreover, I worked on other pathologies, including autoimmunity diseases, inborn errors of immunity, transplantation, and hematological malignancy. My Ph.D. project focused on the study of the dynamics of the HIV reservoir and the immune response after HCV clearance after direct acting antiviral agents treatment, in people living with HIV in the context of HCV coinfection. As a Research Fellow at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, I study the transcriptomics of the tissue resident macrophages in kidney transplant and the monocyte to macrophage transition.
What are your online profiles?
LinkedIn: Alejandra Urioste
X: @jandraleurioste
Research Gate: Alejandra-Urioste
Immunology Keywords: Transplantation, Macrophages, T-cells
