About Prof. V.H. (Vanessa) Herder
Introduction
Vanessa Herder is a scientist and experimental pathologist. Her work helps to understand why some mammalian hosts during virus infections show a mild clinical outcome and some progress to a lethal phenotype.
She is using a pathology-focused approach with spatial-omics to identify specific pathways of the innate immune response which are conserved within multiple species fighting the virus.
She studies the immunopathology of severe virus-infections in a translational context.
Vanessa wrote a book about her work from being a student to becoming a scientist called ‘Dead animals don’t lie’.
Field(s) of expertise
- Experimental and functional pathology
- Spatial transcriptomics of virus infected tissues
- Innate immunity
- Zoonotic virus infections
