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Dr Addo is the daughter of a Ghanaian father who happens to be a physician and a German mother.
She earned her diploma at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine during which she researched Candida albicans transmission between HIV-positive people.
In 1999 she moved to Boston, where she specialized in infectious diseases at the Harvard Medical School.
49-year-old professor and Doctor Marylyn Martina Addo is currently the head of the German Center for Infection Research under the Infectious Disease Unit at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf and has been an expert in emerging infectious diseases for years.
Dr Addo returned to Germany in 2013 where she was made a Professor as well as the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF) Head of Infectious Disease at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf
Dr Addo is responsible for the isolation and treatment of the first corona cases in hamburg and as part of a global team she is also driving the development of a vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 and was among the very few who developed and tested vaccinations that protected people when Ebola’s outbreak was at its peak in west Africa
When the Coronavirus pandemic started to kill thousands people around the world, Dr Addo started developing a vector-based vaccination to protect people.
Inside the Coronavirus there is a spike protein that can penetrate human cells and this doctor is looking to combine the spike protein with the genetic information of another viral vector that can penetrate cells and can produce spike proteins.
The immune system recognises that these proteins are foreign bodies, triggering an immune response and a spike in T cells that ultimately work against the coronavirus protein.
The proposed vaccine by Dr Addo makes use of the smallpox virus as a vehicle for the COVID-19 and will be developed by IDT Biologika.
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