Dr Sidonia Eckle graduated with a BSc in Biochemistry from the Technical University of Munich in 2006, with a MSc in Molecular Cell Biology from Uppsala University and the Karolinska Institute in 2007, and with a PhD in Immunology under Professor James McCluskey from The University of Melbourne in 2013. Since 2019 she has been a Group Leader as part of the MAIT cell program, headed by James. Her research, at the cross-roads of cellular immunology and biochemistry, focuses on understanding the role of MAIT cells in infectious diseases and allergies and on developing MAIT-cell based therapies and vaccines.
