Thouraya Boussoffara

Associate Professor ofn Immunology

Institut Pasteur de Tunis, Tunisia

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Biography

Thouraya Boussoffara, is an Associate Professor of Immunology, works as an immunologist researcher at the laboratory of Transmission, Control and Immunobiology of Infections at Institute Pasteur of Tunis. Her major field of research activities is leishmaniasis. Part of her research activity focuses on analysis of the immune responses against the parasite Leishmania, specifically the cytotoxic immune response and identification of the immune correlates of protection. Additional research work has been oriented towards the identification of Leishmania antigens that may constitute potential candidates for the development of a vaccine, with several Leishmania antigens identified, especially among excreted secreted proteins, that were considered for the design of candidate vaccines.