Lectures and seminars Infection Biology Network Seminar with Professor Faith Osier, Imperial College London, UK
Welcome to an Infection Biology Network Seminar: ”Malaria Vaccines: A shifting landscape”. Coffee and mingle after the seminar.
Title
”Malaria Vaccines: A shifting landscape”
Speaker
Professor Faith Osier, Imperial College London, UK
Biography of Professor Faith Osier
Professor Osier is Chair of Immunology and Vaccinology, Faculty of Natural Sciences at Imperial College London, and Co-Director of the School of Convergence for Health and Technology. She is Director of “Chanjo”, an African-led academic industry hub that implements a bottom-up approach to local vaccine manufacturing for endemic and epidemic diseases of importance to Africa. Her research teams’ vision is to “Make Malaria History” through vaccination, focusing on vaccine candidate discovery, the correlates and mechanisms that underpin protection. She has won multiple international awards such as the Royal Society Pfizer, the Sofja Kovalevskaja, and the UKRI African Research Leader. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci), the African Academy of Sciences (FAAS), the World Academy of Sciences (FTWAS), a TED Fellow, an EDCTP Senior Fellow, a member of EMBO and an official #TOGETHERBAND Ambassador for the United Nations Global Goal 3. Faith is the Past President of the International Union of Immunological Societies and was awarded the prestigious British Society for Immunology Lifetime Honorary Membership Award. She is passionate about emerging African scientists as key agents of change, delivering the health innovations our continent urgently needs.
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