Professor Laurent Renia will present Cerebral malaria: murder mysteries at the blood brain barrier

1:00pm - 2:00pm / Monday 18th April 2016 / Venue: Tony Hart Room Ronald Ross
Type: Seminar / Category: Department
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Prof Laurent Rénia is currently the Executive Director of the Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN), A*STAR. Laurent Rénia obtained his PhD in 1991 Universite Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris, France where he studied the immune response against the pre-erythrocytic phase of malaria. He continued to work on malaria immunology in New York University (1991-1992). He then returned to Paris in 1993 where he obtained a permanent position as an independent research scientist at the French national of Institute of Health (INSERM) working on malaria immunology in the INSERM Unit 313 at the Hopital Pitie-Salpetriere in Paris. He moved to the INSERM Unit 445 at the Institut Cochin in Paris where he started his own group in 1997. Between 2001-2006, he was Research Director at INSERM, and also the Director of the Department of Immunology at the Institut Cochin. He joined SIgN in 2007 and became the Executive Director in 2013.