Clarissa Campbell appointed Tenure-Track Professor at the University of Vienna
CeMM congratulates Clarissa Campbell on her appointment as Tenure-Track Professor of Immunobiology at the University of Vienna. At CeMM, Clarissa Campbell will remain affiliated as Adjunct Principal Investigator. Her research group will be located at CeMM until the end of the year.
Clarissa Campbell has been a Principal Investigator at CeMM since 2021, where she established an internationally recognized research group at the intersection of immunology, metabolism, and microbiome science. Her work investigates how microbial metabolites and dietary cues shape immune-cell function and intestinal homeostasis, with implications for inflammatory and metabolic diseases.
Campbell studied biology at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and obtained a master’s degree in immunopharmacology at FIOCRUZ in Brazil. She subsequently completed her PhD in the Tri-Institutional Immunology and Microbial Pathogenesis Program at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York, where she specialized in mucosal immunology and regulatory T-cell biology. Following her doctoral studies, she continued her research as a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Alexander Rudensky at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
Her scientific contributions have substantially advanced the understanding of host–microbiome interactions. Campbell’s work identified microbial metabolites, including bile-acid derivatives and short-chain fatty acids, as key regulators of regulatory T-cell differentiation and immune tolerance in the intestine. More recently, her group has explored how dietary states and metabolic adaptation influence immune responses and gut physiology.
At the University of Vienna, Campbell will join the Center for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science, where her research group will continue to investigate how diet-dependent microbial metabolism shapes mucosal immunity and tissue homeostasis.
CeMM warmly congratulates Clarissa Campbell on this important career milestone and looks forward to many future collaborations at the interface of immunology, metabolism, and microbiome research!
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