Ana Carrizosa Anderson

I was born in Bogota, Colombia but raised in Miami, Florida. I moved to Boston for graduate school. I first joined the lab in 1995 as a graduate student and obtained my PhD in Immunology from Harvard University in 1999. My thesis work focused on the role of T cell cross-reactivity in the selection and expansion of myelin-reactive T cells in the EAE model of CNS autoimmunity. I left the lab to pursue postdoctoral training at UC Berkeley in the field of T cell development. After spending four years there, I decided that I really missed the rich scientific environment at Harvard so I rejoined the lab in 2004. My research in the Kuchroo Laboratory has been focused in two areas: 1) the study of the TIM family of molecules and how they regulate T cell responses and 2) analysis of the mechanisms by which different disease susceptibility influence immune phenotypes and determine autoimmune disease susceptibility using the NOD mouse model. I am now an Assistant Professor and am developing my own research area in cancer immunology. Specifically, I am studying the role of inhibitory receptors in regulating the anti-tumor T cell response.