Michael Lanzer
EVI SAC MEMBER
Vaccines and Immunisation
European Vaccine Initiative
Germany
Biography
Since 1999, as full professor, Michael Lanzer has been Chair of Parasitology at Heidelberg University where, 11 years earlier, he obtained his Ph.D. After several years as postdoc at Sloan-Kettering Institute, New York, Michael held a junior group leader position at the University of Würzburg before being appointed professor at Heidelberg University, since when he has served as coordinator, and has served on several committees in his field of expertise, and is currently Director of the international EVIMalaR PhD Programme, Coordinator of The Hartmut Hoffmann-Berling International Graduate School of Molecular and Cellular Biology and Coordinator of the MD/PhD Programme of his university. In 2011 he was honoured with the Heidelberg Molecular Life Sciences Investigator Award. Michael has authored and co-authored numerous articles published in top international scientific journals. Michael’s areas of expertise are Molecular Parasitology, drug resistance mechanisms of the malarial parasite; antigenic variation, cytoadherence, protein trafficking in P. falciparum and membrane transport processes.
Research Interest
To develop effective, accessible, and affordable vaccines against diseases of poverty.
