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Professor Claudia Daubenberger

Dr Caludia Daubenberger
Head of Unit
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Institute: Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute

 

Biography

Claudia Daubenberger is Unit Leader for “Clinical Immunology” at Swiss TPH. Her main interest is the analysis of human immune responses in phase I to phase III vaccine trials against Plasmodium falciparum malaria in all age groups in Sub-Saharan Africa. Currently, the rigorous evaluation of whole purified Plasmodium falciparum sporozoite based vaccine approaches in East and West Africa is a major focus of her work. Controlled human malaria infections as a tool to understand vaccine induced protection and to dissect the host – parasite interactions using systems immunology approaches is pursued. The analysis of impact of helminth co-infections on cellular immunity in HIV, malaria and TB in Tanzanian children and adults is ongoing in collaboration with partners in Tanzania and in Switzerland. Before joining the Swiss TPH, she worked at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) in Kenya on vaccine development against Theileria parva, an apicomplexan parasite closely related to Plasmodium falciparum. With colleagues from the USA, she works on improvement of tick vector control measures and sporozoite based vaccine development against Theileria parva. She received her Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree from the University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Germany.

 

Key Publications

A list of publications can be found here

 

Web Links of Interest

https://www.swisstph.ch/en/staff/profile/people/claudia-daubenberger/

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