Undergraduate in Biological Sciences, Medical Modality, Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho (1997), Master Degree (2000) and PhD (2004) in Basic and Applied Immunology, University of São Paulo, and Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research, National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases-NIH (2005-2009). Associate Professor at the Departament of Immunology, Institute of Biomedical Sciences-USP and head of the Laboratory of Experimental Immunology. Visiting Professor at the Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center (2019-2020). Fields of interest: immunology, specially inflammation and acquired immunity, helminth and fungal diseases, medical entomology and immunomodulatory activities from saliva of hematophagous arthropods vectors.