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ProfessorHannah Opokua Akuffo

Affiliated Professor

Karolinska Institutet

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  • Affiliated Professor
    Karolinska Institutet
  • Senior Research Cooperation Adviser, responsible for methods development
    Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Hannah’s passion remains research capacity strengthening in low income countries. Beyond her work with Sida, Hannah has been the supervisor for PHD STUDENTS: 9 students from Sweden, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Sudan, Norway; LICENTIAT STUDENTS: 3 students from Somalia, Nicaragua and Ethiopia POSTDOCTORAL STUDENTS: 2 students from Germany and Sweden

GRANTS

  • GRANT
    Innate immunity to human leishmaniasis and its influence on vaccine outcome
    TDR1 Jan 2001
  • GRANT
    Ph.D. for Miss I.N.E. Khittam Satti: surrogate markers of immunity against human L. donovani infection in Sudan
    TDR1 Jan 1998
  • GRANT
    Teaching at basic immunology workshop with support of Karolinska Institute, at Samarkand, Uzbekistan
    TDR1 Jan 1998
  • GRANT
    IL-12 regulation of Leishmania driven responses in healthy donors
    TDR1 Jan 1997