Draft:Facundo Batista (scientist)

Facundo Damian Batista is a US-based scientist expert in B cells and antibodies.

Education
Batista gained an undergraduate degree at the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina in 1991. He then gained a PhD at the International School of Advanced Studies in Trieste, Italy in 1995.

Career
He was a tenured member of the Francis Crick Institute in London and a professor at Imperial College London.

Batista is currently a professor of biology at MIT, the chief editor of the EMBO Journal, and an associate director, scientific director, and principal investigator at the Ragon Institute of Mass General, MIT, and Harvard. He contributes to the Ragon Institute’s mission to learn from the immune system to improve health.

Batista specialises in research into B cells (white blood cells that create antibodies and are a critical part of the immune system), studying their fundamental biology and their applications to immunology and vaccine development. His findings have been published in many leading journals, including Nature, Science, Immunity, The EMBO Journal, Journal of Experimental Medicine, and Nature Immunology.

Awards
Batista was awarded fellowships at the Academy of Medical Sciences (United Kingdom) and the American Academy of Microbiology.