Dr Jordi B Torrelles

Prof. Jordi Torrelles

Texas Biomedical Research Institute
Texas, USA

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Dr. Jordi B. Torrelles is a Professor in the Population Health Program, the Founding Director of the International Center for the Advancement of Research & amp; Education (I●CARE), the Director of the ABSL3/BSL3 Operations Program, and the co-Director of the Biocontainment & Biosafety Core of the NIH-funded Interdisciplinary NexGen TB research Advancement Center (IN-TRAC).

         Dr. Torrelles has a broad background in tuberculosis (TB) biochemistry, immunology, cell biology, animal models, diagnostics, and therapeutics. The focus of Torrelles laboratory research program is studying of components of the human lung mucosa, in particular alveolar lining fluid components (surfactant proteins and lipids, hydrolases, complement components,etc.), in determining the interaction of respiratory microbes with host cells in vitro, ex vivo and invivo, and their impact on the establishment and outcome of the infection. In particular, the laboratory is interested in studying how the process of aging, HIV-coinfection and diabetes alter the lung alveolar environment, driving people’s susceptibility to acute and chronic respiratory infections and progression to disease. Dr. Torrelles is also involved in improving the current TB vaccine, called BCG, for both, to prevent the development of active TB disease as well as a therapy for bladder cancer. Finally, Dr. Torrelles is involved in the development of a novel agar-based phenotypic drug susceptibility testing (DST) for drug resistant TB specially designed for rural areas in low and middle-income countries.

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