Speaker: Dr. Olga Rojas

Moderator: Dr. Alexandre Boutet

Dr. Olga L. Rojas is a Scientist at the Krembil Research Institute, University Health Network, and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Immunology at the University of Toronto. Trained as a physician and immunologist in Colombia, she completed her PhD in immunology and later pursued postdoctoral research in neuroimmunology at the University of Toronto.

Her research focuses on the gut-brain axis, exploring how intestinal B cells and plasma cells influence neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration in diseases such as Multiple Sclerosis, Alzheimer’s, and Parkinson’s. Dr. Rojas has published extensively and pioneered novel tools to track immune cell migration in the brain.