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Hannah Thomas

Education:  Bsc Biochemistry including Professional Training Year from Cardiff University  

Current Job Title: PhD Student

Date: Jan 2020 - present 

Description of project/duties and funder: Developing a vaccine against Mycobacterium tuberculosis by manipulating Killer T-cell activity. Aims to determine whether M.smegmatis reactive T-cells recognise M.tuberculosis-infected cells and if so, through what recognised molecule. Also, to generate killer T-cells against M.tuberculosis cells and use this information for a pre-clinical TB vaccine study. Funded from the estate of Mr David Mills and Mrs Mary Mills in memory of Thomas John Evans F.R.C.S, R.A.F.V. 

 

Previous Job Title/Work Experience: Visiting Scholar

Date: Aug 2019 - Dec 2019

Description of project/duties: On-going projects to produce soluble T-cell receptors and peptide-MHCs to determine crystal structures and refold protein complexes for binding assays. 

 

Previous Job Title/Work Experience: Professional Training Year, Dept. Infection & Immunity, Cardiff School of Medicine  

Date: Sep 2017 - Aug 2018

Description of project/duties: Project to characterise a novel T-cell epitope from successful cancer immunotherapy and brief investigation into ERAP proteins in ankylosing spondylitis.

Achievements and awards: 1 publication.









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