Benedita Barata da Rocha

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Benedita Barata da Rocha (born February 24, 1949), is an immunologist. She is Portuguese, born in Lisbon, Portugal. She earned her M.D. 1972 from the University of Lisbon, and her Ph.D. 1978 from the University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK. She is DR1 of the CNRS and director of a research unit of the INSERM at the Necker Institute [1], Paris, France.

Her major scientific contributions are in the areas of T cell biology and T cell memory.