Edgardo Moreno has a PhD in Veterinary Sciences (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA,1980), as well as postdoctoral training at the Max Planck Institute for Immunobiology, Freiburg; Orange-Fellow at the Center for Immunology, Marseille-Luminy, France; and DAAD-Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Infectious Diseases, Berlin. His main contributions are in the field of brucellosis, including pathobiology, structure and function of Br-LPS, proinflammatory response, the diagnoses, and evolution of the genus Brucella. He has acted as Director of the Tropical Disease Research Program of the National University; as Dean of Student Affairs of the Graduate Program between the Central American Universities and the Karolinska Institute, Sweden; as Coordinator of the Network for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases in Central America and a Scientific manager of the Iberoamerican Program for Science and Technology Development. He holds the chair of Humboldt Honorary Professor.
Short Biography
Edgardo Moreno has a PhD in Veterinary Sciences (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA,1980), as well as postdoctoral training at the Max Planck Institute for Immunobiology, Freiburg; Orange-Fellow at the Center for Immunology, Marseille-Luminy, France; and DAAD-Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Infectious Diseases, Berlin. His main contributions are in the field of brucellosis, including pathobiology, structure and function of Br-LPS, proinflammatory response, the diagnoses, and evolution of the genus Brucella. He has acted as Director of the Tropical Disease Research Program of the National University; as Dean of Student Affairs of the Graduate Program between the Central American Universities and the Karolinska Institute, Sweden; as Coordinator of the Network for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases in Central America and a Scientific manager of the Iberoamerican Program for Science and Technology Development. He holds the chair of Humboldt Honorary Professor.