Martin González Rodriguez

I am a Chilean researcher working on mechanisms of allergy development. I studied Biochemistry as my Bachelors degree (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) and focus on vaccine development for Human Metapneumo Virus during my undergraduate thesis. After graduation I worked at the Biotechnology Laboratory of the Department of Agriculture of Chile in the identification of animal and plant pathogens using molecular biology approaches. I specialised in Immunology during my Master in Medical and Pharmaceutical Drug Innovation (MPDI) at the University of Groningen (The Netherlands). During my MSc. I was part of projects adressing food allergies and new testing platform for vaccine development. Finally, I moved to Finland to pursuit a PhD in Immunology understanding the mechanisms of allergic inflammation and its relation with environmental factors.

Research. Immunological animal experimentation assistence.

Broad knowledge in immunology, cell culture and immuno assays. Experience using molecular biology techniques and also animal experimentation.

Travel grant Scandinavian Society for Immunology Conference Dublin, Ireland (2024)

EFIS-ACTERIA Travel Grant for ECI Dublin, Ireland (2024)

Travel grant Scandinavian Society for Immunology Conference in Turku, Finland (2023)

Pirkamaa Cultural Foundation Personal Research Grant (2023-2024)

Finnish Allergy Foundation (Allergiatutkimussäätiö) Personal Research Grant (2023)

Travel grant Scandinavian Society for Immunology Conference in Reykjavik, Iceland (2022)

Minority Scientist travel grant award, American Association of Immunologists (2022)

Tampere Immunoexcelence International Immunology course (2021)

Tampere Immunoexcelence International conference travel grant (2019)

Full Master Scholarship Graduate School of Medical Sciences (Groningen) (2015)

Abel Tasman talent Scholarship, University of Groningen (2015)

Honor Scholarship Juan Pablo II, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (2010)

young European Federation of Immunological Societies (yEFIS), Treasurer

young Scandinavian Society for Immunology (ySSI), Board member.

Immunology. Innate immunity. Allergic inflammation. Dynamic of cytokine receptors in Langerhans cells. Effects of environmental microbes in the immune system.

Immunology, inflammatory immune responses, innate immunology, vaccines and allergies.

• 2025-Present Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Tampere University, Finland.
• 2018-2025 Doctoral researcher, Tampere University, Finland.
• 2016-2017 MSc. Thesis researcher, University of Groningen, The Netherlands.
• 2014-2015 Bioanalysis researcher, Agricultural Service, Chilean Ministry of Agriculture, Chile.
• 2012-2013 BSc. Thesis researcher, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile.

Soppela, S., González-Rodríguez, M., Stone, V.M. et al. Coxsackie B1 virus-like particle vaccine modified to exclude a highly conserved immunoreactive region from the capsid induces potent neutralizing antibodies and protects against infection in mice. J Biomed Sci 32, 86 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12929-025-01183-1

Kummola, L.*, González-Rodríguez, M.*, Marnila, P. et al. Comparison of the effect of autoclaved and non-autoclaved live soil exposure on the mouse immune system. BMC Immunol 24, 29 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12865-023-00565-0

Tanja Salomaa, Laura Kummola, Martín Ignacio González-Rodríguez, Lotta Hiihtola, Tero A H Järvinen, Ilkka S Junttila, Low IL-13Rα1 expression on mast cells tunes them unresponsive to IL-13, Journal of Leukocyte Biology, Volume 114, Issue 2, August 2023, Pages 187–194, https://doi.org/10.1093/jleuko/qiad065

Salomaa, T., Pemmari, T., Määttä, J., Kummola, L., Salonen, N., González-Rodríguez, M., Parviainen, L., Hiihtola, L., Vähätupa, M., Järvinen, T. A. H., & Junttila, I. S. (2022). IL-13Rα1 Suppresses Tumor Progression in Two-Stage Skin Carcinogenesis Model by Regulating Regulatory T Cells. Journal of Investigative Dermatology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jid.2021.11.013

González-Rodríguez, MI, Nurminen, N, Kummola, L, Laitinen, OH, Oikarinen, S, Parajuli, A et al.. Effect of inactivated nature-derived microbial composition on mouse immune system. Immun Inflamm Dis. 2022;10 (3):e579. http://doi.org/10.1002/iid3.579 . PubMed PMID:34873877 PubMed Central PMC8926502.

Kiewiet MBG, González Rodríguez MI, Dekkers R, et al. The epithelial barrier-protecting properties of a soy hydrolysate. Food Funct. 2018;9(8). http://doi.org/10.1039/c8fo00913a

Tapia-Calle G, Born PA, Koutsoumpli G, Gonzalez-Rodriguez MI, Hinrichs WLJ, Huckriede ALW. A PBMC-Based System to Assess Human T Cell Responses to Influenza Vaccine Candidates In Vitro. Vaccines. 2019; 7(4):181. https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines7040181