Jonathan Florentin, MS, PhD

Research Scientist II

Biography

Jonathan Florentin joins the division as a Research Scientist II, working in the laboratory of Dr. William Drobyski. He received his master’s degree in Human Pathology and Infectious Diseases in 2009 from the Faculty of Medicine Aix-Marseille University, France. He received his PhD in 2013 from Aix-Marseille University, France where he studied the impact of Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) on a subset of cells of the innate immunity, the plasmacytoid dendritic cells (pDCs) in Dr. Ivan HIrsch lab at CRCM-INSERM (France). In 2013, he joined Michael Gale Jr. lab in Seattle, WA, USA, to study the relevance of dendritic cells in the context of West Nile Virus (WNV) and Dengue Virus infections (DenV). In 2015, he joined Dr. William Burlingham’s lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI, USA to investigate the role of maternal microchimerism derived exosomes in antigen acquisition in the context of transplantation. He then joined Dr. Partha Dutta’s lab, in 2016, in the Vascular Medicine Institute at the University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA, to work on change in hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells and function of inflammatory cells in pulmonary hypertension. In the Drobyski lab, he will study. The immune aspect of graft versus host disease (GVHD) in the context of bone marrow transplantation and will help understand the cause of inflammation during GVHD.

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