Billede af Anja Bengtsson
20072019

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Personlig profil

Kort præsentation

My research is focused on malaria to investigate how malaria parasites inside erythrocytes interact with the host. In particular, I focus on malaria parasites binding to ICAM-1 expressed at the brain endothelium and on the development of a cerebral malaria vaccine.

 

Aktuel forskning

Keywords

Receptor-ligand interactions; recombinant protein expression; antigen design; poly- and monoclonal antibody generation and characterization; immunoassays; cell-to-cell adhesion assays; flow cytometry; malaria infected erythrocytes; primary and immortalized cells; vaccine development; VLP

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2010 – 2014. PhD, Centre for Medical Parasitology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen.

Scientific focus: Vaccine development against cerebral malaria.

 

2006 – 2008. MSc in Biotechnology, The Technical University of Denmark (DTU).

Scientific focus: Biomedical microbiology and immunology. 

 

2002 – 2006. Engineer in Food Science, The Technical University of Denmark (DTU).

Scientific focus: General food science and food microbiology.

Ekspertise relateret til FN’s Verdensmål

I 2015 blev FN-landende enige om 17 Verdensmål til at standse fattigdom, beskytte planeten og sikre velstand for alle. Denne persons arbejde bidrager til følgende verdensmål:

  • Verdensmål 3 - Sundhed og trivsel

Emneord

  • Det Sundhedsvidenskabelige Fakultet
  • Malariaforskning

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