Maria Duque Correa

Dr Maria Duque-Correa completed her studies of Biology at the University of Antioquia in Colombia, where her undergraduate thesis focused on the role of macrophage activation in Mycobacterium tuberculosis control. She then went to the Mayo Clinic in Arizona, USA to work as a research associate in projects investigating the effect of age on macrophage and dendritic cell responses during cancer. Afterwards, Dr Duque-Correa undertook a PhD at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Berlin, Germany. Her PhD thesis studied the role of macrophage arginase in granuloma immunopathology during M. tuberculosis infection.

For her postdoctoral studies, Maria joined the Wellcome Sanger Institute where she investigated host-parasite interactions that drive immune responses to whipworms (Trichuris sp). During her postdoc, Maria was funded first by a Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellowship and then, by a transition to independence David Sainsbury Fellowship from the National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research. Awarded a Wellcome Sir Henry Dale Fellowship, Maria started her own research group at the Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology and Infectious Disease at the University of Cambridge in January 2022, and joined the Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute as Principal Investigator in September 2022.