Dario Zamboni is a full professor at Ribeirao Preto School of Medicine of the University of Sao Paulo (FMRP/USP) and head of the Innate Immunity and Microbial Pathogenesis Laboratory at FMRP/USP. He received his Ph.D. from the Federal University of São Paulo and a PEW fellowship to perform his postdoctoral training at Yale University, School of Medicine. Dr. Zamboni has published extensively on the recognition of microbes by intracellular pattern recognition receptors and the interaction of host cells with intracellular pathogens, such as Leishmania, Legionella, Coxiella, and inflammatory viruses. He is chair of the Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology of FMRP/USP and has chaired several institutional boards and committees for funding awards, including PEW and FAPESP. He has been a member of several editorial boards and serves as Editor of the journals such as eLife, Plos Pathogens, Plos Neglected Tropical Disease, among others. His research interests focus on Innate Immunity, Microbial Pathogenesis, and the Interaction of Host Cells with Intracellular Pathogens.
