Immunology, Microbiology, Inflammation, Vaccines 2024-2025

The panel covers a wide array of disciplines within human biology and its response to external and internal triggers of innate and adaptive immunity. These span from discovery, development, and optimization of vaccines to the body's immune response against microorganisms (pathogens and commensals), including the modulation of inflammatory pathways driving health and disease trajectories of infectious or non-communicable origin. 

Councils involved in the appointment: DFF | Technology and Production Sciences and DFF | Medical Sciences

Panel members:

  • Jenny Persson, Associate Professor, Lunds University 
  • Klas Kärre, Professor, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm
  • Kurt Hanevik, Professor, Bergen Universitet
  • Teresa Lambe, Professor, Oxford University
  • Thomas Decker, Professor, University of Vienna
  • Cliona O'Farrelly, Professor, Trinity College Dublin
  • Martijn C. Nawijn, Professor, University Medical Center Groningen