Vanessa Sancho-Shimizu
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Maria Vanessa Sancho Shimizu | |
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| Alma mater | McGill University |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Imperial College London Necker–Enfants Malades Hospital |
| Thesis | The genetic dissection of the host immune response to Salmonella Typhimurium infection in the wild-derived mouse MOLF/Ei (2008) |
Maria Vanessa Sancho Shimizu is a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow and Reader in the sections of Paediatrics Infectious Diseases and Virology investigating the human genetic basis of life-threatening infections.
Sancho-Shimizu completed her doctoral studies at McGill University. Her research involved human genetics, with a focus on Salmonella tryphimurium infection.[1] She was based in the Centre for the Study of Host Resistance.[2] She joined the Laboratory of Human Genetics at the Necker–Enfants Malades Hospital as a postdoctoral fellow, where she worked with Jean-Laurent Casanova. Here she became interested in the gene disorders that underpin Herpes simplex encephalitis. In 2012 Sancho-Shimizu joined Imperial College London as a Marie Curie Fellow, where she continued to work on herpes simplex encephalitis, and searched for other viral infections and invasive meningococcal disease.
