GIISER

Prof Penny Moore is South African Research Chair of Virus-Host Dynamics, Research Professor and Director of the extramural Antibody Immunity Research Unit of the SA Medical Research Council at the University of the Witwatersrand and the National Institute for Communicable Diseases.

Dr Charles Sande is Associate Professor of Immunology and Infection at the Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health at the University of Oxford UK, and a Research Fellow at the KEMRI Wellcome Trust Research Programme in Kenya.

Dr Alphonsus Chinedu Ugwu is lead for the Global Immunology and Immune Sequencing for Epidemic Response in Nigeria (GIISER-Nigeria) project Africa Rapid Immunosurveillance system (ARISE), serving in partnership with Principal Investigator Prof Christian Happi.

Dr. Peter Kojo Quashie is a Senior Research Fellow and Group PI in Molecular Virology at West Africa Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens (WACCBIP) and Ghana GIISER PI. His research focuses on HIV, SARS-CoV-2, and other pandemic RNA viruses, with a focus on host-viral interactions and antiviral therapeutics.

Adriana C. Bonomo, MD, PhD, is trained in basic cellular immunology at the Carlos Chagas Biophysics Institute at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, with post-doctoral training at the NIH/USA. She is a researcher at the Brazilian National Council Research (CNPq) and a state scientist for the Rio de Janeiro State Research Foundation.

Dr Inès Vigan-Womas (PhD, HDR) is Research Director at Institut Pasteur, engaged in research collaborations and partnerships around infectious diseases in the Pasteur Network and globally. He is a cellular biologist and immunologist by training; in the last two decades, she has acquired extensive expertise in field-based study, malaria, and immunity to infectious diseases.

Dr Jayanta Bhattacharya is Dean at the Biotechnology Research Innovation Council (BRIC)-Translational Health Science & Technology Institute (THSTI), India and Professor & Head of its Center for Virus Research, Vaccines, and Therapeutics. He is Principal Investigator of the Molecular and Translational Virology (MTV), overseeing the IAVI-THSTI Antibody Translational Research Programme.

Prof Alex Sigal works at the Africa Health Research Institute (AHRI) and Hebrew University of Jerusalem, working on emerging infections with a focus on the immune response to emerging viruses, virus countermeasures against immunity, and viral evolution to evade immunity.

Dr Jinal N. Bhiman Bhiman has ten years of experience (2009-2019) in HIV virus-host dynamics, where she investigated HIV intra-host evolution, isolated anti-HIV monoclonal antibodies and assessed immunogenicity of HIV vaccine immunogens in multiple animal models.

Dr Jennifer Serwanga is a Principal Research Scientist in Immunology and Assistant Director of Research at the Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI). She is a leader in immunology and vaccine development with over two decades of experience, conducting pivotal studies to profile immune responses to COVID-19, HIV, Ebola, and Rift Valley Fever, significantly advancing global vaccine development.