About Me

Dr. de Rivero Vaccari is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurological Surgery & The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, and a Distinguished Faculty Member of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience & Aging at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. He has studied the innate immune response for over 17 years and was the first to show the involvement of the inflammasome in the Central Nervous System.

Dr. de Rivero Vaccari graduated Summa Cum Laude with a B.S. in Biology from Florida International University where he was inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society (2004). He then pursued his Ph.D. in Physiology & Biophysics at the University of Miami in the laboratory of Dr. Robert W. Keane (2007) and his post-doctoral fellowship in Neurotrauma at The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis in the laboratory of Dr. W. Dalton Dietrich (2010). He graduated with a M.S. in Business Analytics (2020) from the Miami Herbert Business School of the University of Miami. In addition, he has trained on Biomarker Science at The Harvard Clinical and Translational Science Center, on Computational Immunology at The Santa Fe Institute and on Space Biology as part of the Spaceflight Technology, Applications and Research Course organized by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). In addition, he is Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certified.

Dr. de Rivero Vaccari is also a managing member of InflamaCORE, LLC., a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of ZyVersa Therapeutics, Inc, an Associate Editor for the Journal Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience and an Editorial Board Member of the Journal Cells.