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Alexandra Schuetz

Chief, Cellular Immunology at AFRIMS at MHRP

Dr. Schuetz received her Ph.D. from the University of Saarland in collaboration with Bayer HealthCare AG, Germany in 2004. After being involved in HIV/TB co-infection research in collaboration with Mbeya Medical Research Program, Tanzania and working as a project coordinator at the Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Engineering, she started working with MHRP in 2006 and relocated first to Mbeya, Tanzania, where she served as Head of Immunology and Specimen Processing. Here she developed in-country research capacity, designed and executed immunology research in the context of HIV vaccine trials and continued her research on HIV/TB co-infection. In 2008 she moved with MHRP to Bangkok, Thailand and is since then involved in research on acute HIV infection, cure studies and HIV vaccine trials.