Carolina B. Lopez PhD

Carolina B. Lopez a Professor and BJC Investigator in the Department of Molecular Microbiology at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Carolina is a mother of two now-adult boys. Carolina arrived in the United States in 1996 after obtaining the professional title of Biochemist and a Master’s degree in Biomedical Sciences from the Pontificia Universidad Catolica of Chile. Carolina received a Ph.D. from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in NY working in the laboratory of Thomas Moran (1997-2002) and continued in the same laboratory for a postdoctoral position. At the Moran lab, Carolina investigated how dendritic cells get activated in response to infection with influenza and parainfluenza viruses and studied the impact of type Carolina interferons on the immune response to viral infection. Carolina was promoted to Research Assistant Professor in 2005. Carolina joined the Faculty of the University of Pennsylvania for Carolina's first independent position in September 2010 and was promoted to tenured Associate Professor in May 2016. Carolina joined Washington University as a Professor and BJC Investigator in June of 2020. 

Carolina B. Lopez has been an active member of the American Association of Immunologists (AAI), where Carolina gave the Immunology to Viruses lecture in the International AAI Introductory Course in Immunology (2012-2013), served as a member of the Committee on the Status of Women (2012-2015), and Carolina was a member of the Program Committee (2017-2020). Carolina is a member of the American Society for Virology (ASV) and of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) where Carolina was on the Council on Microbial Sciences (2017-2020) and the chair of Division E (Immunology). Carolina is a member of the NIH CSR VIRB study section, Section Editor of PloS Pathogens, and Section Editor for the Journal of Immunology. l am a Fellow of the Professional Mentoring Skills Enhancing Diversity (PROMISED) Program funded by the NIH-National Research Mentoring Network (NRMN), a Penn Fellow (2017-18), and a Fulbright US Scholar (2018-2019).