Rachel Tanner
Immunologist
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Biology
Rachel Tanner's Degrees
- PhD Immunology Stanford University
- Masters Biology University of California, San Francisco
- Bachelors Biomedical Sciences University of California, San Francisco
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Rachel Tanner is an immunologist working at the University of Oxford. She won the UK 'Women of the Future' Award for Science in 2019. Research Tanner researches tuberculosis with a focus on immune correlates of protection and the host immune response to TB vaccination. She has worked extensively on in vitro functional assays for vaccine testing to reduce the number of animals used in 'challenge' or infection experiments, and has led an NC3Rs funded project to transfer one such assay internationally. Her research interests also include the specific and non-specific effects of the BCG vaccine across different populations, and development of a vaccine against Mycobacterium bovis in cattle. Initial research was on HIV vaccines with the Centre for HIV-AIDS Vaccine Immunology at the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford, but since her work has moved to TB. From 2010-2022, Tanner worked at the Jenner Institute, during which she received a VALIDATE Fellowship. She is now an Associate Professor in One Health at the Department of Biology.
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