Graduate Student, HMS Program in Immunology

Center for Neurologic Diseases
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Harvard Medical School, NRB641
77 Avenue Louis Pasteur
Boston, MA 02115

Tel: (617) 525-5330
Fax: (617) 525-5333

Email:ccostantino@rics.bwh.harvard.edu

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Education & Training

• 2003-present: graduate student, Harvard Medical School, Division
  of Medical Sciences, Program in Immunology
• 2003: B.S., Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Research & Professional Experience

• 2001-2003: Laboratory technician, BIDMC Department of Medicine, Boston MA
• Summer 2002: Student researcher, Center for Cancer Research,
  MIT, Cambridge MA
• Summer 2000: Intern, United Technologies Research Center, Hartford CT

Research Interests:

I am currently studying MHC Class II presentation and antigen
processing in humans, focusing on the role of lysosomal proteases in
invariant chain and epitope processing and Class II presentation
machinery present within non-professional 'T-APCs'.

Publications

Subbramanian RA, Kuroda MJ, Charini WA, Barouch DH, Costantino
C, Santra S, Schmitz JE, Martin KL, Lifton MA, Gorgone DA, Shiver JW, Letvin NL. Magnitude and diversity of cytotoxic T-lymphocyte responses elicited by multiepitope DNA vaccination in rhesus
monkeys. J. Virol. 2003.