Daniela Ferreira

Speaker in Session 5

Daniela is a Professor of Vaccinology, Mucosal Infection, and Immunity at the Oxford Vaccine Group, Department of Paediatrics at the University of Oxford. She is also the Director of the Liverpool Vaccine Group at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine where she was the Head of the Clinical Sciences Department from 2018 till 2022.

Daniela is a global leader in respiratory mucosal immunity and Controlled Human Infection Studies to accelerate vaccine development.

Her research focuses mainly on:

  1. Accelerate development and testing of novel respiratory vaccines using controlled human infection 

  2. Understanding mucosal immunity (nasal and lung) and correlates of protection against respiratory pathogens

  3. Defining how respiratory virus co-infections and host susceptibility (e.g. lung chronic disease, ageing) alters responses to pneumococcal infection

Daniela obtained a PhD in Immunology in 2009 from the University of Sao Paulo (São Paulo, Brazil). From 2001 to 2009 Daniela trained at Butantan Institute (Sao Paulo, Brazil) on the development of novel vaccines against respiratory infections.