Luciana Leite

Laboratorio de Desenvolvimento de Vacinas, Instituto Butantan

Senior Researcher, Molecular Biotechnology Laboraty

Luciana C.C. Leite, has PhD in Biochemistry from the Universidade de São Paulo (USP). She was hired in 1987 at Instituto Butantan, at the Centro de Biotecnologia, changing to vaccine development following a Pos-Doc at Institut Pasteur. She has worked on the molecular biotechnology for development of vaccines, especially vaccines based on recombinant BCG. She has been Director of the Centro de Biotecnologia and Vice-President of Fundação Butantan. She is currently Senior Researcher at the Molecular Biotechnology laboratory of the Laboratório de Desenvolvimento de Vacinas, having over 120 papers in peer-reviewed journals and several patents. She is member of the Academic Management Board of the master program of the Leading International Vaccinology Education of Erasmus/European Union and of the Ethics Committee for Research in Humans of USP.

Luciana Leite

Laboratorio de Desenvolvimento de Vacinas, Instituto Butantan

Senior Researcher, Molecular Biotechnology Laboraty

Luciana C.C. Leite, has PhD in Biochemistry from the Universidade de São Paulo (USP). She was hired in 1987 at Instituto Butantan, at the Centro de Biotecnologia, changing to vaccine development following a Pos-Doc at Institut Pasteur. She has worked on the molecular biotechnology for development of vaccines, especially vaccines based on recombinant BCG. She has been Director of the Centro de Biotecnologia and Vice-President of Fundação Butantan. She is currently Senior Researcher at the Molecular Biotechnology laboratory of the Laboratório de Desenvolvimento de Vacinas, having over 120 papers in peer-reviewed journals and several patents. She is member of the Academic Management Board of the master program of the Leading International Vaccinology Education of Erasmus/European Union and of the Ethics Committee for Research in Humans of USP.