Immunologist of the Month 2025

Jennifer Rose Habel

Dr Jennifer Rose Habel is a postdoctoral researcher in the laboratory of Professor Katherine Kedzierska at the University of Melbourne. She completed her PhD in 2024, during which she investigated the…

October 15, 20258 min Read More

Roland Schelker

Dr. Roland Schelker received his M.D. from the University of Cluj-Napoca in 2009. He has been part of the University Hospital Regensburg since 2009, first as a Resident Physician in…

September 1, 20256 min Read More

Justin Komguep Nono

Dr. Justin Komguep Nono is a Cameroonian immunoparasitologist recognised for his research on host–helminth interactions, specifically how helminths modulate immune and vaccine responses. He heads the Laboratory of Molecular Biology…

July 29, 20257 min Read More

Kondwani Jambo

Professor Kondwani Jambo is a Research Group Leader based at the Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Research Programme (MLW) and a Professor of Immunology and Infection at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, United…

June 24, 20255 min Read More

Lucy Ochola

Dr Lucy Ochola is the Head of the Tropical and Infectious Diseases Department at the Institute of Primate Research, Kenya. She is also a Research Associate at the Department of…

May 30, 20257 min Read More

Tomabu Adjobimey

Dr Tomabu Adjobimey is a Beninese scientist and Associate Professor of Immunology and Microbiology under the African and Malagasy Council for Higher Education (CAMES). He earned his PhD in Immunology…

April 23, 20258 min Read More

Mehrnaz Mesdaghi

Dr Mehrnaz Mesdaghi earned her MD and PhD degrees from Tehran University of Medical Sciences and is currently an Associate Professor of Immunology at Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran. She…

March 24, 20256 min Read More

Chijioke Umunnakwe

Dr. Chijioke Umunnakwe (CJ) earned his PhD in Genetics and Bioinformatics from Iowa State University, USA in 2014 and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the NIH in 2020, focusing on…

February 28, 20257 min Read More

Yanet Valdez Tejeira

Dr Yanet Valdez Tejeira was born in Peru where she began her academic journey at the Universidad Nacional San Antonio de Abad del Cusco, later earning her master’s degree in…

January 28, 20257 min Read More