Dr. Alcaide is an Associate Professor of Immunology, the Director of the Immunology Graduate program, and the Kenneth and JoAnn G. Wellner Professor at Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA. She received her PhD, cum laude, in Molecular Biology and Immunology from Universidad Autonoma of Madrid, Spain. As a recipient of a Fulbright postdoctoral fellowship, Dr. Alcaide trained in vascular biology at the Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women’s hospital. Dr. Alcaide was appointed to Instructor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School, where she successfully competed for a “Pathway to Independence NIH K99/R00” award. Dr. Alcaide’s research focuses in understanding the role of T lymphocytes in heart inflammation and their impact in the progression of heart failure, with the goal of unveiling new pathways that can potentially be targeted in therapeutic useful ways. Dr. Alcaide’s impactful work in the growing field of cardio-immunology has been published in prestigious journals such as Circulation, the Journal of Experimental Medicine and Nature Cardiovascular Research and resulted in continuously funded grants from the NIH and private foundations. Dr. Alcaide has received several awards, including the Cotran Early Career Investigator, awarded to early career investigators with demonstrated excellence in Pathology, the International Society for Heart Research Mid Career Research and Scholarship Award, and was named Fellow of the American Heart Association. Dr. Alcaide serves as Associate Editor of the Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology and the Journal of Leukocyte Biology, in the board of consulting editors of the Journal of Clinical Investigation insight, and in the Circulation Research and FASEB Journal Editorial Boards.