Camila Amorim
in Team
Camila initially came to spend a year in the lab as a PhD student participating in Brazil’s ‘sandwich’ program. During this time, she fell in love with bioinformatics and returned after her PhD to start a postdoc jointly between our lab and the laboratory of Phil Scott. During her postdoc, she took the lead on advancing our understanding of the transcriptional response that drives skin pathology during cutaneous leishmaniasis. Her initial studies identified key biomarkers that predict patient outcomes even before the first treatment has begun, and more recently she demonstrated that localized skin infection with Leishmania elicits a chronic systemic inflammatory response in patients. In her most recent work which involved a collaboration between our lab, the Scott lab, and Elizabeth Grice’s lab, Camila identified a link between skin commensal microbes, in particular Staphylococcus aureus, and slower healing time in cutaneous leishmaniasis. You can read more about that work in this press release. Camila left PennVet in 2023 and is currently a Senior Scientist in Computational Biology and Data Science at Century Therapeutics.
