Lucas Ferrari De Andrade, PhD

About Me

Dr. Ferrari de Andrade received his PhD in Cellular and Molecular Biology from Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brazil, in 2014. During this period, he also developed part of his Ph.D. for 12 months in the QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Australia. In 2014, right after obtaining his Ph.D., Dr. Ferrari de Andrade started his 5-years postdoctoral training in the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Harvard Medical School. In 2019, Dr. Ferrari de Andrade joined the Precision Immunology Institute in the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, to start his own laboratory. Since then, his laboratory has been working to develop new immunotherapies for cancers.

Language

English

Position

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR | Immunology & Immunotherapy, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR | Oncological Sciences

Research Topics

Cancer, Immunology

Multi-Disciplinary Training Areas

Cancer Biology [CAB], Immunology [IMM]

Education

BSc / Lic, Universidade Federal do Parana

MSc, Universidade Federal do Parana

PhD, Universidade Federal do Parana

Visiting Student, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute

Postdoc, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Research

Natural killer cells, as the name implies, are lymphocytes that kill aberrant cells such as the ones that undergo malignant transformation. However, cancers often develop because of, at least in parts, mechanisms of immune evasion. Our laboratory develops antibodies that restore the immune surveillance for transformed cells. We reason that such antibodies could serve as immunotherapeutics for a variety of cancers.

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