Name:
Dr Isabela Pedroza-Pacheco
Post-nominal Letters:
PhD
Job Title:
Principal Investigator, Immunology & immuno‑oncology
Organisation / Company:
Oxford cancer/immunology research centres
Biography:
Dr. Isabela Pedroza-Pacheco is a Group Leader at the Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, where she leads the Laboratory for Functional Immunology. Her research focuses on understanding the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying the regulation of secondary and tertiary lymphoid structures in vaccination, infection, and cancer, with the goal of identifying mechanistic targets that could be exploited to improve vaccines and therapeutics. Dr. Pedroza completed her PhD in Immunology at University College London and subse-quently undertook postdoctoral training at the University of Oxford under the mentorship of Prof. Andrew McMichael and Prof. Seph Borrow. She has made significant contributions to the fields of HIV and cancer immunology as a faculty member of consortiums at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the USA and the Combined Molecular Analysis of Blood and Tissue (COMBAT) in Cancer at Oxford, where she applies advanced technologies, including AI-driven immunology approaches, to disease research.