Dr. Quintana, a graduate of the University of Buenos Aires (1999, Argentina), obtained his PhD in immunology at the Weizmann Institute of Science (2004, Israel), where he worked under the supervision of Prof. Irun Cohen in the development of antigen arrays and DNA vaccines for the diagnosis and therapy of autoimmune disorders. Dr. Quintana then was a postdoc of Prof. Irun Cohen and Yechiel Shai at the Weizmann Institute of Science, where he studied the structural aspects of the T cell receptor.