Alexandra Spencer
Dr Alex Spencer is a Senior Lecturer in Immunology at the University of Newcastle and leads the Vaccination and Infection Immunology group based at the Hunter Medical Research Institute. Prior to joining UoN in 2022, she spent 16 years at the University of Oxford, honing her expertise in vaccine development across multiple programs and measuring immune responses from pre-clinical studies through to human clinical trials. Drawing on this experience, her research focuses on how early changes in immune activation—driven by vaccine type or route of administration—shape the quality and longevity of adaptive immune responses. This work aims to inform the design of more effective, tailored vaccination strategies that can provide better protection against infectious diseases.
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