Immunologist of the Month

Prof. Magez is a Belgian Professor of immunology, who focuses on parasite-immunology. He currently leads his research teams based at the Ghent University Global Campus in Incheon, South Korea and the Free University of Brussel, Belgium. For the past 30 years he has conducted research on...

Our December Immunologist of the Month is Luka Cicin-Sain, Professor at Hannover Medical School (MHH) and a member of the Centre for Individualised Infection Medicine (CIIM), a joint venture of MHH and the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) in Germany. A physician-scientist by training...

Our November Immunologist of the Month is Collins Ouma, Professor in Biomedical Sciences at the Department of Biomedical Sciences and Technology, Maseno University, Kenya. Collins obtained his PhD in immunogenetics at Kenyatta University in 2007.

Our October Immunologist of the Month is Associate Professor Jayne Sutherland,  Head of the TB Platform and Immunology laboratory at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Unit The Gambia at London School of Health and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). A/Prof Sutherland completed her ...

Dennis Burton is the Chair and Professor in the Department of Immunology and Microbiology, The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, SA). His research is focused on infectious disease, in particular the interplay of antibodies and highly mutable viruses, notably HIV.

Our August Ambassador of the month is Prof. Esser, physician-scientist who was appointed as Head of the National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS) Immunology Unit, Medical Microbiology, Tygerberg Hospital at Stellenbosch University in 2005.

Our July Immunologist of the month is Faatima Laher from  the Cape Town HIV Vaccine Trials Network (HVTN) Immunology Laboratory (CHIL). Faatima is a recent PhD graduate, and  is currently a Scientific Officer at CHIL.

This month we have a special interview/feature on Julio Lenin Domínguez Ramírez. Prof. Ramírez was one of the faculty members at the IUIS-ALAI-SMI-Immunoinformatics Course 2019. A special article was written highlighting his talk and interview during the course.

Our May Immunologist of the month is Virginie Rozot from the University of Cape Town. Her research focuses on understanding Tuberculosis-specific immune responses associated with different stages of infection and disease ...

Our Immunologist of the month is Assistant Professor Babacar Mbengue based at the University Cheikh Anta Diop, Senegal. Our Immunopaedia ambassador Mahaman Moustapha Lamine conducted this interview.