Claudia Daubenberger is Unit Leader for "Clinical Immunology" at the Department of Medical Parasitology and Infection Biology of the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute. Her main interest is the in-depth analysis of human immune responses in phase I to phase III vaccine trials targeting Plasmodium falciparum malaria in all age groups in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Prof. Daniel Paris is a specialist in general internal medicine and a clinical researcher. He obtained his medical degree in 1996 from the University of Zurich and pursued a career combining internal medicine with infectious and tropical diseases. Prof. Paris spent over 12 years working in clinical research in Southeast Asia for the University of Oxford.