Federico IovinoAssociate Professor and Principal Investigator at Dept Neuroscience at Karolinska Institutet with expertise on Central Nervous System bacterial infections, Neuro-Inflammation and Host-pathogen interactions. My lab's research is focused onto two main rojects: 1) Understanding the molecular mechanisms of neuronal damage caused by bacterial infections and developing new therapeutic approaches to block bacterial-neuron interaction to preserve neuronal functions 2) Identifying bacterial molecules sensed by microglia, the resident macrophages of the brain, and establishing a new prophylactic strategy using these identified bacterial molecules as immune-stimulatory agents to enhance microglial phagocytic activity to kill bacterial pathogens. Read More Read Less