Convenor: Dr. Manuela Rehtanz
DLR-PT – Project Management Agency of the German Aerospace Center RHISSA Team Leader
Berlin
As a molecular biologist, Manuela Rehtanz wrote her doctoral thesis on the activation of papillomavirus (PV) replication and gene expression. Since then, she has focused on infectious diseases, molecular virology, oncology and biochemistry in basic and applied research. In the USA, Dr Rehtanz was the lead virologist in level-A health assessments of wild dolphins. Besides discovering two new dolphin herpes viruses and one PV, she developed a diagnostic test for dolphin PVs and a vaccine candidate. As an Assistant Professor at New York University, she also specialized in HIV research and drug development.Seeking a way to contribute to strategic development and research uptake, Dr Rehtanz worked for the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) for a period of two years. As part of the Global Health team at the DLR Project Management Agency, she is now the team leader of RHISSA, a funding measure in which she is deeply committed to supporting research capacity strengthening in LMICs.
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