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What is your name?
Amy Mónaco
What is your current position?
PhD, Research Associate
Which institute and country do you work in?
Department of Biotechnological Development, Instituto de Higiene, Facultad de Medicina
What is your home country?
Uruguay
What are your research interests?
Bacteria-based cancer immunotherapies, tumor immunology
Tell us about yourself and your research interests:
My field of research is on the use of attenuated bacteria as antitumoral agents, both alone or combined with other approaches as chemotherapy or checkpoint inhibitors, among others. I am particularly committed to the study of the cellular and molecular mechanisms that govern Salmonella anti-tumor potential in different cancer models. More recently, my work has diverged to basic understanding of the interaction from a bacterial point of view. I hope that my work studying both sides of the interaction can contribute to the understanding of tumor-bacteria interdependence so as to design better and cheaper strategies to address this worldwide affecting disease.
What are your online profiles?
ResearchGate – Amy Mónaco
Immunology Keywords: Inflammasome, Innate immunity, bacteria-based immunotherapies
