Lidia Bosurgi

Lidia Bosurgi earned her master's degree in Medical Biotechnology from the University of Milano-Bicocca in 2006. Her thesis, conducted in F.H. Back's laboratory at Harvard University, focused on the effects of carbon monoxide on macrophages. In 2011, she obtained an Ph.D. in Molecular Medicine at San Raffaele University, Italy. During this time, she worked in A.A. Manfredi's lab, where her study centered on mechanisms to promote macrophage tissue remodeling functions in the damaged muscle. Concurrently, she served as a visiting Ph.D. student in U.H. Von Andrian's lab at Harvard University, investigating subcapsular sinus macrophage response during viral infection. Lidia joined Prof. C.V. Rothlin's lab at Yale University as postdoctoral fellow in 2012, focusing on how apoptotic cell sensing influences macrophage responses to type 2 cytokines. Since 2017, Lidia is a group leader at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf and at the Bernard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine in Hamburg. Her lab studies how tissue-specific signals impact the functional heterogeneity of phagocytic macrophages in helminth infections and immune-mediated inflammatory diseases.