Ute-Christiane Meier
Queen Mary University of London, UK
Biography
Ute-Christiane Meier graduated from the University of Heidelberg. She completed her PhD at the University of Oxford, where she worked on the cytotoxic T-cell control of HIV infection at the Nuffield Department of Medicine. Through the support of several post-doctoral fellowships, she continued her studies on persistent virus infections and immunotherapeutic vaccine strategies within Oxford University, British Biotech, and the Edward Jenner Institute. She changed field in 2007 to follow her longstanding interest in neuroimmunology. She leads the human immunology program within the neuroimmunology group and, in May 2012, was appointed as a non-clinical lecturer and runs her independent research group.
Abstract
Abstract : What role does the environment play as risk factor in multiple sclerosis?