Andreas Wack Biography

Andreas Wack was born in Frankfurt, studied Biology in Konstanz and got his first degree based upon a thesis on the clonal composition of T cell populations in the elderly. He performed his PhD work at NIMR under the supervision of Dimitris Kioussis on thymocyte lineage decisions and went on to do a post-doc and work as a staff scientist in the research institute of Novartis Vaccines, formely Chiron, in Siena, Italy.

The focus of his work there was the modulation of T and NK cell function by the hepatitis C virus, human dendritic cell subsets and their crosstalk, the mechanism of action of mucosal and parenteral vaccine adjuvants, and new generation influenza vaccines.

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