Michel Enamorado, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Dermatology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, with affiliations to the Friedman Brain Institute, the Precision Immunology Institute, and the Mark Lebwohl Center for Neuroinflammation and Sensation. He received his B.S. in Biochemistry from the University of Havana, graduating with the Best National Academic Performance, and earned his Ph.D. in Molecular Biosciences from the Autonomous University of Madrid, where he studied fundamental aspects of immunology with support from the “La Caixa–Severo Ochoa” International Fellowship. He then completed postdoctoral training in the laboratory of Dr. Yasmine Belkaid at the National Institutes of Health, supported by the Cancer Research Institute Irvington Fellowship, where he investigated host-microbiota interactions and neuroimmune responses in the skin.

At Mount Sinai, the Enamorado Lab focuses on the neuroimmune regulation of tissue injury and repair, with three interconnected areas: (1) peripheral neuroimmune mechanisms controlling tissue regeneration at barrier surfaces, (2) central nervous system circuits that sense and encode injury, and (3) the impact of injury-associated neuroimmune responses on mental health. This work aims to establish fundamental principles of neuroimmune regulation and inform novel therapeutic strategies for chronic wounds and inflammatory skin diseases.

Dr. Enamorado’s contributions have been recognized with the 2022 ICIS–Pfizer Junior Investigator Award, the 2023 NIH William E. Paul Award for Best Paper in Cytokine Research, and the NIAID Career Transition Award (K22).