Group Members

Natalia Ruggeri Barbaro

Former Post-Doctoral Fellow

PhD in Pharmacology, Unicamp, Brazil
natalia.barbaro [ at ] vumc.org

Research Interests:

• Immune system
• Hypertension
• Prediction peptide-MHC binding
• T-cell receptor
• Protein-protein interaction

Co-mentored by Dr. David G. Harrison (Harrison Lab)

Project Description:

My scientific career thus far has been involved in investigating the immune mechanism of hypertension. A critical barrier to improve high blood pressure treatment is lack of knowledge regarding the molecular mechanisms initiating the immune response in this disease. I am currently working in the development of a computational tool for medium-throughput screening of peptides with unnatural amino acids. Using this new tool, I am looking to study the interactions of MHC-I complex with neo-antigens by testing MHC-I/T-cell receptor studies.

Publication Link:

https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=ifV79dYAAAAJ