EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Lic. En Bioquímica, Bioquímica (Facultad de Ciencias – UdelaR)
Masters, Viral Genetics (Universidad de la República)
PhD, Virus Evolution (Institut Pasteur in Paris, France)

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Lucia Carrau is a Uruguayan virologist specializing in emerging viruses and virus evolution. During her PhD, she used both in vitro and in vivo experimental evolution approaches to study Coxsackievirus B3 (a picornavirus) and chikungunya virus (an alphavirus). Her work contributed to the development of a novel live attenuated vaccine candidate for chikungunya virus. She went on to investigate other emerging arboviruses, including Mayaro and Usutu viruses—pathogens considered to have high potential to cause outbreaks in the human population. Lucia joined the tenOever lab as a postdoctoral fellow in 2020, focusing on using animal models to study the host response to SARS-CoV-2 and to evaluate antiviral therapeutics. She is now an Assistant Professor of Microbiology at NYU Langone.