Alfredo Torres

Professor

Alfredo Torres, PhD. MS. is the Herman Barnett Distinguished Professor in Microbiology and Immunology, and Associate Provost at UTMB. He is a peer-recognized bacteriologist/vaccinologist with extensive experience in the study of bacterial pathogens causing diarrheal disease, such as pathogenic Escherichia coli or Shigella, or biodefense-related organisms, such as pathogenic Burkholderia species. His laboratory has published more than 150 peer-reviewed publications, 15 book chapters and 3 books on topics related to microbial pathogenesis, food safety, therapeutics, and vaccine development. The major interest of my lproducing suitable vaccines and therapeutics. My laboratory has constructed top candidate vaccines, which are in development and testing against pathogenic Burkholderia and E. coli, and we are moving forward testing them in pre-clinical and eventually, phase one clinical trials. In Latino America, he is the founder and coordinator of the Latin American Coalition for Escherichia coli Research (LACER) and a fellow of the Academy of Sciences of Latin America.