Eduard Puente-Massaguer

Dr. Eduard Puente‑Massaguer’s work focuses on mechanistic, translational vaccinology aimed at developing broadly protective vaccines against infectious diseases. His doctoral training at the Autonomous University of Barcelona centered on designing production platforms for next‑generation HIV‑1 virus‑like particle vaccines and implementing advanced single‑particle analytical methods. He subsequently joined Florian Krammer’s laboratory at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai under a Fundación Ramón Areces fellowship, where he advanced the development of universal influenza vaccine strategies using chimeric hemagglutinin and recombinant neuraminidase candidates that are now advancing into Phase I clinical trials. As an Assistant Professor, he leads the development of multivalent vaccines targeting respiratory pathogens and investigates the contribution of non‑hemagglutination‑inhibition immune mechanisms to broad and durable protection.