 | Dr. Volker GerdtsNeonatal Immunization
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Biography
Dr. Volker Gerdts is the Associate Director Research of the Vaccine & Infectious Disease Organization (VIDO) at the University of Saskatchewan. He received a DVM in 1994 from Hanover Veterinary School and a German PhD equivalent from the Federal Research Institute for Animal Health, Island of Riems and Hanover Veterinary School, Germany, in 1997. A postdoctoral fellowship, funded by the German Research Council, was spent from 1998-2000 at VIDO in the area of vaccine discovery and mucosal immunology. In 2002, he became a Research Scientist at VIDO and the Associate Director of Research in 2007.
Dr. Gerdts is also currently the Program Manager of the Neonatal Immunization Program at VIDO. His research interests are in the area of neonatal vaccines for both humans and animals, mucosal immunology, and vaccine delivery and formulation. Current research projects are focused on the development of novel single-shot vaccines for human infants against pertussis (whooping cough), adjuvants and targeting of vaccine formulations to dendritic cells, porcine immunology and the use of pigs as model for humans, immune modulation and regulation of mucosal immune responses.
