Iria Gómez Touriño

Dr. Iria Gomez-Tourino is Associate Professor at the USC since 2020, and group leader of the Immunity and Small Molecules Lab at CiMUS and IDIS. She has been awarded several fellowships and awards, including two prestigious Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual fellowships (King’s College London, UK, 2013-2015, and USC, Spain, 2018-2020), the Award to Young Researchers by the Royal Academy of Sciences of Galicia (2025), and the Career Development Award by Breakthrough T1D (formerly JDRF, 2023-2028, 1M$). The latter is aimed to foster the careers of exceptionally promising researchers in the Type 1 Diabetes field, and only three researchers receive this award yearly around the globe. 67% of her publications are in D1 journals, this being the case for her last four articles (Nature Communications, Diabetologia, FASEB Journal and Nature Immunology). Dr. Gomez is also the inventor of 3 patents, European Union Expert Evaluator, Nobel Laureate Lindau alumni, and elected member of the Board of Directors of the Spanish Society of Immunology (2022-2026). She is also very active in outreach activities. 
Her main research interests are:
•    The identification and characterization of novel anti-inflammatory small molecules for the treatment of autoimmune diseases.
•    The study of mechanisms of autoreactivity underlying these pathologies, with a special focus on novel antigens and MAIT cells. 
 

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