Dr. Juan Pablo de Rivero Vaccari was born in Lima, Peru. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Biology in 2004 from Florida International University, where he graduated Summa Cum Laude and became a member of Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society. In 2004, he joined the University of Miami as a graduate student in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics where he worked in the laboratory of Dr. Robert W. Keane. Dr. de Rivero Vaccari obtained his Ph.D. in 2007 for his work showing that the NLRP1 inflammasomes is a multiprotein inflammatory complex in neurons that can be therapeutically targeted to improve histopathological and functional outcomes after spinal cord injury. In 2007, he joined the laboratory of Dr. W. Dalton Dietrich at the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis as a postdoctoral fellow where Dr. de Rivero Vaccari continued his studies on innate immune responses after brain trauma. In 2010, he became a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurological Surgery and the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis at the University of Miami. Currently, he works on identifying biomarkers and therapeutic targets in the innate immune response to improve outcomes after central nervous system injury and disease. In addition, Dr. de Rivero Vaccari’s work has resulted in the filing of several patents with the United States Patent and Trademark Office and abroad. To move inventions forward, he co-founded InflamaCORE, LLC., a company dedicated to treating and diagnosing inflammatory injury and disease, as a spin-off company from the University of Miami.