Katie Ewer
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Katie Ewer | |
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| Academic background | |
| Education | PhD, Immunology, 2004, Open University |
| Thesis | Relationships between tuberculosis exposure, ex vivo antigen-specific T cell responses, and delayed type hypersensitivity in point-source outbreaks. (2004) |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | University of Oxford |
Katie Jane Ewer is a British immunologist and Professor of Vaccine Immunology at the University of Oxford's Jenner Institute.[1]
When she did not get into medical school, Ewer pursued a career in biomedical science and became interested in infectious diseases.[2] She was interested in a career in biology for she was "fascinated by seemingly endless processes that occur in our cells and organs every second of our lives without us knowing about it.[2] Ewer earned an undergraduate degree in biomedical science, which included a year of microbiology training.[3] She then began working as a biomedical scientist at the microbiology department of the John Radcliffe Hospital in 2000,[4] before pursuing a PhD on the immunology of tuberculosis (TB).[3] Ewer earned her PhD at the Open University as a result of her research with Ajit Lalvani on novel diagnostic tools using T cells for the diagnosis of tuberculosis infection.[4]
