Claudia Maria Denkinger
Head of Division of Tropical Medicine, University Hospital Heidelberg
Claudia Denkinger holds a MD, MSc and DTMH from the Julius-Maximilians University, Germany, and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK. Her research has focused on diagnostics development and clinical trialling. She has contributed to over 130 publications in the field and has been awarded the Gertrud Meissner Award of the European Society of Mycobacteriology for her contribution to TB research. In the last five years she led the tuberculosis program at FIND, a WHO collaborating center for TB Diagnostics. Since May 2019, Claudia is leading the Division of Tropical Medicine, at the University Hospital Heidelberg, Germany, where she continues her work on Global Health relevant diagnostics.