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. Currently, she is working as a Research Associate in the Scott lab where she is integrating data from multiomic assays generated from leishmaniasis patients in Brazil.
