Dr. Justin Nono Komguep selected to participate in the "Global Immunology Challenges for Young Investigators", Australia

Dr. Justin Nono Komguep, postdoctoral fellow from the Cameroon and based with Professor Frank Brombacher (ICGEB, Division of Immunology and the IDM), was chosen as one of four top young immunologists from emerging countries to receive travel awards from BioLegend and present their data at the symposium on "Global Immunology Challenges for Young Investigators", hosted within the International Congress of Immunology in Melbourne, Australia, on August 24th 2016. 

The other participants included Dan Liu from Beijing, China; Maria Korotetskaya from Moscow, Russian Federation, and Juan Sebastian Pappalardo from Bariloche, Patagonia, Argentina.  After their talks, they then participated in a panel discussion focusing on the challenges of building a career in global immunological research to solve the problems facing developing nations.

Dr. Komguep holds the prestigious Sydney Brenner Fellowship (2016-2017), awarded by the Academy of Science of South Africa, and focuses on characterizing transgenic murine models to identify host factors that could confer resistance against schistosomiasis (bilharzia).