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Professors and invited scholars

During each semester, students will have access to and be taught by our staff, resident professors  the hosting universities (UAB, UB, UA, UCBL, UJM).

Our invited scholars already involved

In the teaching unit “Functional anatomy of the immune system” you will be taught by:

Dr. Eduardo Martínez Naves, Professor of Immunology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Dr. Elena Aguado, Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla, Hospital Virgen del Rocí

 

In the teaching unit “Antigen recognition” you will be taught by:

Dr. Yaqoub Ashhab, Associate Professor of Biotechnology, Director Biotechnology Research Center, Palestine Polytechnic University.

 

In the teaching unit “Receptor signalling” you will be taught by:

Dr. Enric Esplugues, Senior Group Leader, Centro de Investigación Principe Felipe, Valencia.

Dr. Joan Manils, The Francis Crick Institute, London.

 

In the teaching unit “Mechanisms of immunopathology” you will be taught by:

Dr. Ian Todd, Reader in Immunology, Nottingham Medical School, UK

Dr. Manel Juan, Head, Division of Immunology Hospital Clinic Barcelona

 

In the teaching unit “Immunodeficiencies” you will be taught by:

Dra. Silvia Sanchéz Ramón Associate Prof of Immunology, Universitat Complutense de Madrid and Consultant, Immunology Division, Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Madrid

Dr. Montserrat Plana, Senior Researcher, HIV Immunopathology and Cellular Immunology, Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS)

In the teaching unit “Immune system in early life, pregnant women and elderly” you will be taught by:

Prof Arnaud Marchant, MD, PhD, Université Libre Bruxelles

Dr. Fabienne Willems, MD, PhD, Université Libre de Bruxelles

In the teaching unit “Clinical drug research” you will be taught by:

Dr. Sereina Herzog, PhD, Associate Prof. Medical University of Graz, Austria

Dr. Vanessa Vankerckhoven, PhD, CEO Novosanis

In the teaching unit “Novel technologies, vaccine administration routes & adjuvants” and “vaccine manufacturing & quality control, regulatory approval processes” you will be trained by:

A large variety of employees of the big pharmaceutical company GSK on the site of Wavre. This teaching unit is entirely taught by GSK.

During the “Summer school on vaccinology

Students will have access to famous speaker. As the programme changes every year, more information can be found on the website of the Summer school on vaccinology.

In the teaching unit “Communicating on vaccines and public health” you will be taught by:

Dr. Anne Marie Moulin, MD, CNRS, Paris

Pr. Alain Fisher, MD, professor of immunology, Université Paris

Dr. Angus Thomson, Senior Social Scientist, UNICEF, Lyon

 

In the teaching unit “Epidemiology” you will be taught by:

Dr. Anne Perrocheau, MD, Senior Epidemiologist, Emergency program, WHO, Geneva

Dr. Daniel Lévy Bruhl, Santé Publique France, Paris

 

In the teaching unit “Vaccine formulation” you will be taught by:

Dr. Mustafa Diken, Vice President Vaccines & Immunology at BioNTech SE Deputy Director -Immunotherapy Development, Germany

Dr. Roland Zahn, Senior Scientific Director-Preclinical Immunology-Viral Vaccines at Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of J&J, Netherlands

The experts of the Vaccine Formulation Institute in Lausanne during a 3-day workshop.

The experts of Boehringer Ingelheim on their site of Lyon during a 2-day workshop including a visit of their factory.

 

In the teaching unit “Vaccine specific applications” you will be taught by:

Dr. Heinz-Josef Schmitt, Senior Director Vaccines Europe, Pfizer, New York City

 

Dr. Sushant Sahastrabuddhe, Director of Enteric Fever programme at the International Vaccine Institute in Seoul, South Korea

Dr. Jacqueline Miller, Senior Vice President, Therapeutic Area Head Infectious Diseases, Moderna, USA

The experts of Sanofi Pasteur on their site of Lyon during a 2 days workshop including a visit of their factory

 

In the teaching unit “Project management” you will be taught by:

Dr. Luciana Leite, Scientific Researcher, Instituto Butantan, Brazil

 

In the teaching unit “Vaccine clinical development” you will be taught by:

Dr. Sonali Kochhar, MD, Clinical Associate Professor, Global Health, University of Washington, USA

Dr. Rosybel Drury, Global Director Medical Affairs, MSD, Lyon

 

Famous speakers who have previously given conferences to the students:

Dr. Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, Nobel Prize 2008 for HIV discovery, Pasteur Institute, Paris

Pr. Stanley Plotkins, Emeritus Professor of the University of Pennsylvania and Adjunct Professor of the John Hopkins University, USA

Pr. Alain Fisher, MD, professor of ommunology, Université Paris

Dr. Françoise Barré-Sonoussi, Nobel prize 2008 for HIV discovery, Pasteur Institute Paris

Dr. Angus Thomson, Senior Social Scientist, UNICEF, Lyon

Dr. Rosybel Drury, Global Director Medical Affairs, MSD, Lyon

Prof. Pierre Vandamme, MD, PhD, founder and director of the center for the evaluation of vaccination, University Antwerpen, Belgium

Dr Luciana Leite, Director at Laboratório Especial de Desenvolvimento de Vacinas at Instituto Butantan, BRAZIL

How to Apply as Future Invited Scholars

The application should include:

A CV, including

– A short (no more than 600 words) cover letter laying out what added-value your course proposal could bring to the programme, and notably with respect to student-centred teaching/lecturing, research activities and academic/professional networking;

A course proposal, including:

– Your LinkedIn page if you have one in the cover email.

– Applications should be sent to mylive@univ-lyon1.fr with the subject line: “LIVE_Guest_Lecturer_Application_SURNAME_NAME.pdf”.

– Handwritten applications will not be considered.

Last updated : December 14, 2024