Leandro J. Carreño is an Assistant Professor in the Immunology Program at the Instituto de Ciencias Biomédicas at the Faculty of Medicine at the Universidad de Chile and an Associate Investigator at the Millennium Institute on Immunology and Immunotherapy. He did his undergraduate and Ph.D. at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (PUC), earning the title of Biochemistry in 2006 and his Ph.D. in Biological Sciences with a major in Molecular Genetics and Microbiology in 2010. In 2010, he was awarded the Hermann Niemeyer Medal, awarded to the best graduate student, by the Chilean Society of Biochemistry. His research is focused on the relationship between cells of the innate and adaptive systems in inflammatory and allergic diseases. In 2012, he was appointed one of 10 Pew Latin American Fellows in Biomedical Sciences, being the only Chilean named that year. In 2012, Dr. Carreño was selected as one of 100 young leaders by the Revista Sabado of the Chilean newspaper El Mercurio.