BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Daniel Mucida PhD
Laboratory of Mucosal Immunology
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
The Rockefeller University
New York (NY), USA

Mucida received his undergraduate degree in biology, with an emphasis on biochemistry and immunology, from the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Brazil in 2000. He received his Ph.D. jointly from the University of São Paulo and New York University in 2005. After postdoctoral studies at the La Jolla Institute from 2006 to 2010, he joined The Rockefeller University as Assistant Professor in 2010. In 2016, he was promoted to Associate Professor. In 2021 he was promoted to Professor, with tenure and nominated HHMI investigator. Mucida studies how the immune system associated with intestinal mucosae is able to generate efficient immune responses without jeopardizing its tolerance to innocuous antigens.