Alexandra Flemming is a German biologist, academic, and the editor in chief of

Nature Reviews Immunology ''Nature Reviews Immunology'' is a monthly review journal covering the field of immunology. The journal also publishes "Research highlight" articles, which are short summaries written by the editors that describe recent hot research papers. The edi ...

Education

Flemming studied molecular biology at the

University of Freiburg The University of Freiburg (colloquially german: Uni Freiburg), officially the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg (german: Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg), is a public research university located in Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemb ...

before moving to South Africa to study infectious immunology at the

University of Cape Town The University of Cape Town (UCT) ( af, Universiteit van Kaapstad, xh, Yunibesithi ya yaseKapa) is a public research university in Cape Town, South Africa. Established in 1829 as the South African College, it was granted full university statu ...

. She obtained her PhD at the

'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. She continued studying as a

European Molecular Biology Organization The European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) is a professional, non-profit organization of more than 1,800 life scientists. Its goal is to promote research in life science and enable international exchange between scientists. It co-funds cour ...

fellow and as a Human Frontiers Science Programme fellow, seconded to

Cancer Research UK Cancer Research UK (CRUK) is the world's largest independent cancer research organization. It is registered as a charity in the United Kingdom and Isle of Man, and was formed on 4 February 2002 by the merger of The Cancer Research Campaign and t ...

London London is the capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary dow ...

Career

Flemming is employed in the department of molecular immunology in the faculty of biology at the

. She joined ''

Nature Reviews Drug Discovery ''Nature Reviews Drug Discovery'' is a monthly peer-reviewed review journal published by Nature Portfolio. It was established in 2002 and covers drug discovery and development. The editor-in-chief is Peter Kirkpatrick. According to the ''Journal Ci ...

'' as an associate editor before becoming the editor in chief of ''

'' in 2017''.''

References

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