Katalin Wilkinson

After completing my PhD at Eotvos University Budapest in 1997, looking at functional T cell epitopes from Mycobacterium tuberculosis proteins, using synthetic peptides in collaboration with the MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital London, I did postdoctoral work at Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio), Oxford University and Imperial College London. In 2004 I moved to Cape Town to study HIV-associated TB. I was appointed a tenured Senior Investigator Scientist at the National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR, London) in 2007, that became part of the Francis Crick Institute in 2015.

I am now based at the Francis Crick Institute in London, while maintaining strong collaborations with the Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine (IDM) at the University of Cape Town, where I am Honorary Associate Professor.