Graduated in Biological Sciences (2005), I developed my PhD thesis at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (Florianopolis, Brazil) focusing on the role of immunological mechanisms in cardiac injury and repair (Ramos, et al., 2012, Doktorväter: Prof. Dr. Jamil Assreuy and Prof. Emer. Dr. Nelson Vaz). Beyond the experimental enterprise, I have also pursued understanding the epistemological aspects of inflammation and immunity (Ramos et al., 2006; 2011; Ramos, 2012). From both, theoretical and experimental perspectives, my major scientific interest has always been to understand how immunological phenomena contribute to body maintenance, similar as to Elie Metchnikoff and Carl Wiegert did more than a century ago. In 2013, I moved to
Germany attracted by the “Würzburger School of Cardiology” which is worldwide recognized for its vanguard immunological inclination (Ertl & Frantz, 2005). Together with my colleagues, in the past couple of years I have sought to rediscover the heart under the lenses of immunology, and have contributed to the raising field of Immunocardiolgy (Ramos, et al., 2012; Weirather, et al., 2014; Ramos, et al., 2016; Ramos, et al., 2017; Nunes-Silva, et al., 2017).