Santiago Lopez, MD

Experience & Research

• Teacher assistant of the Microbiology department, School of Medicine, Universidad del Salvador, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2006-2009).
• Postdoctoral Fellow – Center for Vaccines and Immunity at the The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, OH (2010 – 2012).
• Post-Doctoral scholar, Clinical and Translational Science, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA (2016-2018).

• Farinatti A, Arcos M, Lopez S.M.C, Davolos I, Tilli M, Burion C, Seidenstien ME. “Endogenous Lower Urinary Tract infection in pregnant and non-pregnant women: relationship between vaginal cells lipid and inflammatory response”. (Infecciones del Tracto Genital Inferior Endogenas (ITGIE) en mujeres embarazadas y no embarazas: su relacion con los Lipidos en celulas vaginales y respuesta inflamatoria). Revista Argentina de Microbiologia. 2007 Mar. 39(1): 1-78.
• Mella C, Suarez-Arrabal M.C, Lopez S, Stephens J, Fernandez S, Hall M, Ramilo O, Mejias A. Innate Immune Dysfunction is Associated with Enhanced Disease Severity in Infants with Respiratory Syncytial Virus Bronchiolitis. J Infect Dis. 2013 Feb 15;207(4):564-73. PMID: 23204162. PMCID: PMC3611762
• Eddine-Bentebibel S*, Lopez, S*, Obermoser G*, Khurana S, Blankenship D, Xu H, Schmitt N, Banchereau J, Golding H, Palucka A.K., Ramilo O#, Ueno H#. Induction of ICOS+CXCR3+CXCR5+ Th Cells Correlates with Antibody Responses to Influenza Vaccination. Science Translational Medicine. 2013 Mar; 5(176): 176ra 32. PMCID: PMC3621097
• Cao RG, Suarez NM, Obermoser G, Lopez S, Flano E, Mertz SE, Albrecht RA, Garcia-Sastre A, Mejias A, Xu H, Qin H, Blankenship D, Palucka K, Pascua V, Ramilo O. Differences in Antibody Responses 2 between TIV and LAIV Influenza Vaccines Correlate with the Kinetics and Magnitude of Interferon Signaling in Children. The Journal of Inf. Diseases. 2014 Feb; 210(2): 224-233. PMC4092249
• Suarez-Arrabal, Mella C, Lopez SM, Brown N, Hall MW, Hammond S, Shiels W, Groner J, Marcon M, Ramilo O, Mejias A. Nasopharyngeal Bacterial Burden and Antibiotics: Influence on Inflammatory Markers and Disease Severity in Infants with Respiratory Syncytial Virus Bronchiolitis. Journal of Infection. J Infection. 2015 Oct;71(4):458-69. PMID: 26149186.
• Bradley S. Podd, Dennis W. Simon, Santiago Lopez, Andrew Nowalk, Rajesh Aneja and Joseph A. Carcillo. Rationale for adjunctive therapies targeting inflammation pathobiology based phenotypes in pediatric sepsis; from Meningococcemia/atypical Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome, to H1N1 Influenza/Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus, to Critical Pertussis, to Epstein Barr Virus Lymphoproliferative Disease, to Ebola and other Viral Hemorrhagic Fever. Pediatric clinics of North America. 2017. PMDI: 28941536
• Lopez SMC, Michaels MG, Green M. Adenovirus infection in pediatric transplant recipients: Are effective antiviral agents coming our way? Current Opinion in Organ Transplantation. 2018. PMID: 29846196.
• Lopez SMC, Brian C, Nowalk A. Oral management for Pediatric Lyme Meningitis. Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society. 2018. PMID: 30169816.

Idea of Care

Personal Interests

Awards and Distinctions

• Honors Program in Pediatrics Research, Nationwide Children's Hospital, Pediatric Residency program (2015)
• TL1 Clinical and Translational Science (CTS) Fellowship, offered by the Institute for Clinical Research Education, University of Pittsburgh (2016 and 2017)
• Career Education and Enhancement for Health Care Research Diversity (CEED) Program, University of Pittsburgh (2017)
• IDWeek 2018 TM Trainee Travel Award (2018)