Sotomayor, Claudia E.

Dra. Claudia E. Sotomayor

Claudia E Sotomayor is graduated in Biochemistry from the School of Chemical Sciences (FCQ) of the National University of Cordoba in 1983. She carried out her doctoral thesis at the Department of Clinical Biochemistry FCQ on the study of the immune response against Cryptococcus neoformans, under the direction of Dr. CM Riera and codirection of Dr. DT Masih and received her Ph.D. in Chemistry in 1989. Since then, she teaches Immunology in the same Faculty and as Associate Professor since 2006.

Dr. Sotomayor currently is Independent Investigator of Scientific Researcher Career at CONICET. Since 1998 her laboratory is aimed at studying the mechanisms that regulates the molecular interactions between the opportunistic fungus Candida albicans and the host. In 2011 he founded with outstanding Cordoba Medical infectologists a group of the Translational Research, the "Research Group of Immunology and Mycology", beginning studies in patients with fungal diseases with high incidence and difficult treatment. He has directed and directs doctoral and master thesis. She had held positions on different committees of Science and Technology as SECyT-UNC, CONICET and the National Agency for Scientific and Technological Promotion. She is reviewer of numerous scientific journals. She has published over 48 scientific papers and 9 book chapters, 7 in international books and 2 in national books.

She directed and taught numerous courses to Postgraduate in FCQ and other faculties. At international level and in the framework of Postgraduate Program Brazil- Argentina she directed and/or participated in 8 doctoral courses (2010-2014). She directed courses in Specialization in Allergy and Immunology at the Faculty of Medical Sciences of the UNC (1992- 2009) and the Masters in Immunology at the National University of San Luis (1999, 2004, 2005, 2011). Currently she is the Director of the Specialization in Clinical Biochemistry in Immunology at the Faculty of Chemical Sciences of the UNC.