Dr. Arturo Borzutzky
Adjunct Investigator
P. Universidad Católica de Chile
Dr. Arturo Borzutzky studied Medicine and specialized in Pediatrics at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, receiving the Dr. Enrique Fanta 2004 Núñez Award for best pediatric resident in 2007. He then did a Clinical and Research Fellowship in Allergy, Immunology and Pediatric Rheumatology at Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard University from 2007 to 2010 where he received the Peter Lehner Family Clinical Research Fellowship. During his training at Harvard he conducted research in primary immunodeficiencies and autoimmune diseases obtaining multiple publications in internationally-recognized peer-review journals.
He currently serves as Assistant Professor at the Department of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunology, School of Medicine, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and is Principal Investigator of the Translational Immunology Laboratory at the same institution. He has multiple research lines in allergic, immune and autoimmune diseases, from epidemiology to basic science. The central topic of his lab currently focuses on the interaction between vitamin D and the pathogenesis of allergic and immunologic diseases, for which he has funding from FONIS and FONDECYT grants.
He has published his research in numerous articles in high impact journals including Nature Immunology, Journal of Experimental Medicine, Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology and Pediatrics.
