I am a virologist exploiting basic and applied research on hepatitis viruses to develop biotechnology innovations in diagnostics and vaccines for a broad range of infectious diseases
My research straddles biochemistry, cell biology and immunology. I am interested in the mechanisms of antigen presentation by dendritic cells, and the functions of the cystatin family of protease inhibitors.
I am an immunologist with a background in virology and peptide chemistry and my work is therefore inter-disciplinary but focused on the design of synthetic, epitope-based vaccines against infectious agents particularly influenza and hepatitis C viruses an
I study basic mechanisms of the interaction of pathogens and particles with the immune system, to gain insight into mechanisms of adjuvanticity, immune evasion and generally immuno-modulation. With this specific insight I further pursue the development of