Prof. Jennifer Keiser, PhD
Jennifer Keiser heads the Helminth Drug Development Unit at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH). She is an Associate Professor of Neglected Tropical Diseases at the Faculty of Science of the University of Basel. Prof. Keiser received a PhD in Zoology from the University of Basel in 1999 and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Princeton University, NJ, USA from 2000 to 2003. Research objectives of her team include in vitro and in vivo evaluation of compounds, assay development, preclinical studies such as pharmacokinetics and metabolism, work on the microbiome and clinical trials in helminthiasis-endemic countries, particularly in Côte d’Ivoire, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, and Tanzania.
