Gabriel Victora
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Gabriel D. Victora is an immunologist who is a recipient of the 2017 MacArthur Genius Grant for his research on the adaptive immune system and the processes by which it adjusts its reactions to infections.{{Cite news|url=https://www.statnews.com/2017/10/12/macarthur-genius-winner-immunology/|title=Meet the MacArthur 'genius' tracking the evolution of our cells|date=October 12, 2017|work=STAT|access-date=November 1, 2017}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.rockefeller.edu/news/20642-gabriel-victora-named-2017-macarthur-fellow/|title=Gabriel Victora named 2017 MacArthur Fellow|work=News|date=October 11, 2017|publisher=Rockefeller University|access-date=November 1, 2017}} He is the Laurie and Peter Grauer Professor at Rockefeller University, where he heads the Laboratory of Lymphocyte Dynamics, and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator.{{cite web|url=https://www.rockefeller.edu/our-scientists/heads-of-laboratories/1130-gabriel-d-victora/|title=Gabriel D. Victora|work=Our Scientists: Heads of Laboratories|publisher=Rockefeller University|accessdate=November 1, 2017}}{{Cite web |title=Gabriel Victora named HHMI Investigator |url=https://www.rockefeller.edu/news/36187-gabriel-victora-named-hhmi-investigator/ |access-date=2024-09-16 |website=News |language=en}}
Early life
Victora is the son of Cesar Victora, an epidemiologist and professor. He moved from Brazil to the United States when he was 17.{{cite web |title=The music stopped |url=http://revistapesquisa.fapesp.br/en/2018/02/07/the-music-stopped/ |website=revistapesquisa.fapesp.br |accessdate=April 7, 2019}}
Career
Victora earned a B.M. in 1998 and M.M. in 2000, both in piano, from the Mannes College of Music before changing the focus of his studies and earning a M.S. in immunology from the University of São Paulo. Victora earned his PhD in 2011 from New York University Medical School. From 2012 to 2016, he was a fellow at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.{{Cite web|url=https://www.macfound.org/fellows/1001/|publisher=MacArthur Foundation|title=Gabriel Victora, Immunologist|work=MacArthur Fellows Program 2017|access-date=November 1, 2017}} In 2012, he earned the NIH Director's Early Independence Award for his work using two-photon microscopy to understand the changes over time of the level of diversity of antibodies in germinal centers.{{cite web|title=Tracking Antibody Diversity|work=NIH Director's Early Independence Award Highlights|date=June 26, 2013 |publisher=National Institutes of Health|accessdate=November 1, 2017|url=https://commonfund.nih.gov/earlyindependence/programhighlights}} In 2018, he was given the NIH Director's Pioneer Award.
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External links
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- Victora Laboratory [https://www.germinal.center website]
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