Apresentação Pessoal

Rui Appelberg got his M.D. in 1984, his PhD in 1992, and his "Agregação" in 2002 at the ICBAS where he is Full Professor since 2003. He has been involved in the teaching of Microbiology, Immunology and Infection Biology. His research dealt with the study of Microbiology and Immunology of Infection at the IBMC where he was Group Leader until 2015. He now belongs to the staff of the Vilanova lab at the I3S. Specifically he studied the immune response, vaccines and the development of immune pathology to mycobacterial infections. He published over one hundred papers in international journals indexed by PubMed. He was the PhD advisor of 12 students and co-advisor of several others. He is presently the PhD co-supervisor of one student at the University of Minho and another from the University of Porto. He won several scientific prizes including the First Pfizer Award for three times. He acted as Associate Editor of The Journal of Immunology and belongs to the Editorial Board of Infection and Immunity. Past collaborations included researchers from France, Spain, UK, USA, Denmark, The Netherlands, Germany and Norway.

Áreas de Interesse

1. Health sciences > Medical sciences > Medicine > Immunology
2. Health sciences > Medical sciences > Medicine > Infections
3. Natural sciences > Biological sciences > Biology > Microbiology