Biography

Norma Andrews is currently a Professor of Microbial Pathogenesis and Cell Biology at Yale University. She received a B.S. degree in biology (1977) and a Ph.D. degree in biochemistry (1983) from the University of São Paulo, Brazil.

In 1990, after completing postdoctoral studies in the laboratory of Victor Nussenzweig at New York University, she was appointed Assistant Professor at Yale University.

She was a Burroughs Wellcome New Investigator in 1991, and a Burroughs Wellcome Molecular Parasitology Scholar in 1998. Her laboratory has made numerous contributions to the cell biology of host-pathogen interactions, and discoveries in this area have led to the identification and functional characterization of a novel pathway of Ca2+-regulated lysosomal exocytosis in mammalian cells.

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