Andre Talvani is PhD in immunology at UFMG, Brazil and performed his post-doctorate in immunobiology at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, NY, USA. Currently, he is an associate professor at the Department of Biological Sciences and coordinates the Inflammation Immunobiology Laboratory (http://sites.ufop.br/labiin), where investigates the inflammatory and clinical aspects related to tropical diseases. He is a CNPq Research Productivity Scholarship and member of the Advisory Committee for Microbiology and Parasitology of CNPq (2019-2025), member/coordinator of the Chamber of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology – CBB, of FAPEMIG (2020-2023), affiliated to the Brazilian Society of Tropical medicine (SBMT), Brazilian Society of Parasitology and to the International Global Health Society. He also has a degree in clinical psychoanalysis from the School of Psychoanalysis of Curitiba, Brazil.