Ricardo Silvestre is a Principal Investigator at the Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS), School of Medicine, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Porto in 2007. His research interest is to integrate the study of basic molecular and cellular mechanisms to develop a greater understanding of the immune-metabolic interface in innate immune cells. He addresses how the modifications of host cell metabolism and bioenergetics arising during inflammatory or infectious processes impact the immune functions of monocytes and macrophage and dendritic cells and the further consequences to tissue homeostasis, with the objective of developing new approaches to prevention and treatment.