Bartłomiej Tomasz Ferra works at the Department of Tropical Parasitology, Institute of Maritime and Tropical Medicine, Medical University of Gdańsk, Poland. In 2010, he graduated in biotechnology, with a molecular biotechnology major, from the Faculty of Chemistry of the Gdańsk University of Technology. In 2015, he received a PhD in chemical sciences in the scientific discipline of biotechnology. His scientific interests mainly concern issues related to the Toxoplasma gondii parasite. His research concerns the use of recombinant chimeric Toxoplasma gondii proteins in serodiagnostics and vaccinations. He implemented several projects in this field as a co-investigator or project manager. In recent years, he has been involved in research related to the possibility of developing an anti-Toxoplasma DNA vaccine. So far, he has developed several recombinant chimeric proteins that may be an alternative to the native TLA antigen used in commercial tests. The obtained recombinant chimeric proteins may constitute the basis for developing much cheaper tests for detecting parasite infection in humans and animals. He is currently expanding his research to include tick-borne diseases (viral, bacterial, and parasitic).