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Alexandra Flemming

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Alexandra Flemming is a German biologist, academic, and the editor in chief of Nature Reviews Immunology.

Education

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Flemming studied molecular biology at the University of Freiburg before moving to South Africa to study infectious immunology at the University of Cape Town.[1]

She obtained her PhD at the University of Freiburg's Max-Planck Institute for Immunology and won awards for her thesis about the role of the B cell signaling protein SLP‑65 in the malignant transformation of B cells.[1] She continued studying as a European Molecular Biology Organization fellow and as a Human Frontiers Science Programme fellow, seconded to Cancer Research UK in London.[1]

Career

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Flemming is employed in the department of molecular immunology in the faculty of biology at the University of Freiburg.[2]

She joined Nature Reviews Drug Discovery as an associate editor before becoming the editor in chief of Nature Reviews Immunology in 2017.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d "About the Editors | Nature Reviews Immunology". www.nature.com. Retrieved 2022-04-05.
  2. ^ "Alexandra Flemming - profile". www.aminer.org. Retrieved 2022-04-05.