Martina Damo
Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine and the College
Martina Damo is a bioengineer and immunologist whose expertise includes immunological tolerance, T cell biology, mouse model engineering, and protein engineering. Her research uses state-of-the-art technologies to study the immune system in in vivo models, including single-cell sequencing techniques and in vivo imaging. The aim of her research is to understand how T cells behave in peripheral organs under conditions of health and disease, with a particular interest in the role of checkpoint receptors in the modulation of peripheral T cells.
Her work has been published in Nature, Cell, Nature Biomedical Engineering, Nature Biotechnology, Nature Methods, Science Immunology, Hepatology, Scientific Reports, Molecular Cancer Therapeutics, Journal of Experimental Medicine, and Frontiers in Immunology.
Damo earned a BS in medical and pharmaceutical biotechnology and an MS in molecular and cellular biotechnology from the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University in Milan, Italy. She received her PhD in biotechnology and bioengineering from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland. She completed her postdoctoral fellowship at Yale School of Medicine, where she was promoted to instructor prior to joining the University of Chicago.