Catarina E Hioe | Mount Sinai

About Me

BS 1986 University of Wisconsin-Madison
PhD 1991 University of Wisconsin-Madison
Postdoctoral fellowship 1994 University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

1994-1995: Senior Scientist in Immunotherapy Department, United Biomedical, Inc., Hauppauge,NY
1995-1998: Assistant Research Scientist, Department of Pathology, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY
1998-2001: Research Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY
2001-2008: Assistant Professor, Dept of Pathology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY
2008-2010: Associate Professor, Dept of Pathology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY
1998-2015: Research Microbiologist, VA New York Harbor Healthcare System, New York, NY
2010-2015: Associate Professor with tenure, Department of Pathology, New York University School of Medicine
July 2015- Health Research Science Specialist, James J. Peters VA Medical Center, Bronx, NY
July 2015- Professor, Department of Medicine, Mt. Sinai Icahn School of Medicine, New York, NY

Language

English

Position

PROFESSOR | Medicine, Infectious Diseases, PROFESSOR | Microbiology

Research Topics

AIDS/HIV

Multi-Disciplinary Training Areas

Microbiology [MIC]

Education

BS, University of Wisconsin-Madison

PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Fellowship, University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill

Awards

2012

Research Career Scientist

US Department of Veterans Affairs

1992

Postdoctoral Fellowship

American Cancer Society

Research

My laboratory has established a research program that focuses on HIV immunology. The program is supported by research funds from NIH, VA, and non-federal grants. The laboratory has been pursuing a number of research projects with the common goal of understanding better HIV envelope-mediated immunity and pathogenesis in order to design more effective prophylactic and therapeutic measures against HIV. The key projects currently active in the lab are as follows:

1) Use of immune complexes as a vaccine strategy to elicit effective antibody and helper CD4 T cell responses against HIV.

2) Evaluation of HIV neutralization by antibodies and biologic parameters influencing virus-neutralizing activities

3) Modulation of HIV-1 envelope antigenicity and immunogenicity by glycosylation and antibodies

4) HIV envelope-induced virological synapse and signaling