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MIYAGAWA Happei Konstantina Alexandropoulos Richard J. Lamont Juhi Bagaitkar Beatriz Mothe Nikolaos G. Almyroudis José Esté Carla Renata Arciola Ioannis Androulakis Emily S Barrett Maria Casadellà David A. Scott Shuang Liang Gong Jianhua CHRIS ROMAN MATT STINSON Dr. Alla Adams Sanghamitra Dey Jonathan Claus ARMANDO PAEZ View MoreINGILEIF JÓNSDÓTTIR
Head of Infectious and Inflammatory diseases
deCODE genetics
Iceland
Ingileif received her Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree in biology from the University of Iceland in 1975 and completed a PhD degree in immunology at the University of Stockholm in 1991. She joined the department of immunology at Landspitali, the National University Hospital of Iceland in 1984, focusing her research on neonatal immunology and vaccination strategies. Ingileif joined deCODE in 2005 and leads the gene discovery work on asthma and various autoimmune and infectious diseases, including tuberculosis. She is also responsible for the ethics approvals of deCODE’s research projects. Ingileif is professor of immunology at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland.
Inflammatory diseases