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Andreas Wack is a Principal Group Leader at the Francis Crick Institute, focusing on immunoregulation. He was born in Frankfurt and studied biology at the University of Konstanz, where he earned a PhD through research on T cell populations in the elderly. His doctoral work was conducted under the supervision of Dimitris Kioussis at the Medical Research Council National Institute for Medical Research. Following his PhD, Wack worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Novartis Vaccines in Siena, Italy, where he focused on T NK cell function modulation and its mechanisms in relation to hepatitis C virus and dendritic cell subsets. His current research interests include investigating the pathogenesis and protection against influenza infections and the interplay between the immune system and airway epithelial responses. His work also involves utilizing human and murine primary airway epithelial cell cultures in various infection models to address these critical questions.
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