Heroes Anne-Sophie

Anne-Sophie is a post-doc biomedical scientist, specialized in tropical medicine.

For 2.5 years (2013-2016), she worked as part of a rotation program in three clinical laboratories of the Red Cross-Flanders blood service, completing test and equipment validation projects as well as logistical projects.

In 2016 she joined the Unit of Tropical Bacteriology at the Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITM) as a research scientist. Since then, she has been supporting blood culture surveillance and infection prevention and control (capacity building, research) activities mostly in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and occasionally Benin. As part of her PhD research (ITM and KU Leuven), Anne-Sophie studied the bacterial contamination of blood products for transfusion in DRC.

Besides research, she coordinates laboratory diagnostic-related courses at ITM and coaches master and PhD students.

She is also co-investigator in a vaccination study against typhoid fever (THECA) in DRC sponsored by International Vaccine Institute and the University of Cambridge.