Jennifer Keiser (left) in Pemba/Tanzania, August 2017. Randomized controlled trial to assess the efficacy and safety of two mebendazole regimen. Photograph Marta Palmeirim.
November 28, 2017, the University Council of the University of Basel nominated Jennifer Keiser from the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH) as a new Associate Professor of Neglected Tropical Diseases in the Faculty of Science. "This professorship is of major strategic importance to Swiss TPH and it will contribute significantly to further strengthen the excellent international position of the University of Basel in the disciplines of Parasitology, Tropical Medicine and Global Health", said Swiss TPH Director, Jürg Utzinger. Jennifer Keiser, now lecturer and leader of the research unit Helminth Drug Development in the Department of Medical Parasitology and Infection Biology at Swiss TPH, begins her new position December 1, 2017. It is the first professorship of Neglected Tropical Diseases at the University of Basel. New Drugs Against Tropical Worm Infections Jennifer Keiser, born 1969 in Munich, Germany, at first studied Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Basel. In 1999 she received her doctorate in Zoology at Swiss TPH. From 2000 to 2003 she did her research as a postdoc at Princeton University (New Jersey, USA) on topics in demography and epidemiology.
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