Luciana Balboa

Biography

Luciana works as an Associate Researcher in Infectious Diseases at the Institute of Experimental Medicine (Argentine National Scientific and Technical Research Council-National Academy of Medicine) in Buenos Aires. She is a founding member of the Young Academy of Argentina. Also, she is member of the Steering Committee of the Latin-American Society of Tuberculosis and other Mycobacteriosis and participates in international consortiums aimed to foster the discovery of an improved vaccine against tuberculosis and neglected pathogens, such as the Collaboration for TB Vaccine Discovery (Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation) and the VALIDATE Network (UK).