Angelika Riemer

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Angelika Riemer is the Head of the research group “Molecular Vaccine Design” at the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF) and of the junior research group “Immunotherapy and -prevention” at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), both in Heidelberg, Germany. After finishing her habilitation with the highest academic honors at the University of Vienna (Austria), she was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Cancer Vaccine Center at the Harvard Medical School in Boston, USA. Her major research interests include epitope-specific cancer vaccines and HPV-mediated cancers. She has received multiple prizes for her work, including the Ingrid zu Solms Science Award for Medicine, and was elected into the Young Academy of Sciences of Germany.