Alberto D López-Muñoz, Ph.D., M.S.

Visiting Fellow

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Education:

Ph.D., 2019, Virology, Severo Ochoa Molecular Biology Centre, Madrid, Spain

M.S., 2014, Molecular Biomedicine, Severo Ochoa Molecular Biology Centre, Madrid, Spain

Languages Spoken: Spanish

Biography

Dr. López-Muñoz is a virologist passionate about understanding how viruses evade and modulate the human immune system. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he discovered and explored the role of surface nucleocapsid protein of human coronaviruses in immunomodulation. He is currently expanding his findings on coronaviruses to other viral nucleocapsid proteins as modulators of the immune response.

Originally from Murcia in southeastern Spain, he received his Ph.D. and M.S. from the Universidad Autonoma in Madrid, studying pathogenesis and evolutionary mechanisms of herpes simplex viruses with Dr. Antonio Alcami in Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States.