Postdoctoral fellow
Supervisor: Maziar Divangahi, PhD
Translational Research in Respiratory Diseases Program

Eva Kaufmann is the winner of the August 2018 Relève étoile Jacques-Genest award from the Fonds de recherche du Québec-Santé. She is the lead author on a study recently published in the journal Cell that demonstrated a novel approach for reprogramming stem cells to generate protective innate immunity (trained immunity) against Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection. This novel study paves the path for developing a new vaccine against tuberculosis and potentially other infectious diseases. Learn more

In 2018 Eva Kaufmann was also awarded the Werner Müller Prize from the German Society for Immunology.
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