Thomas Hänscheid

Thomas Hänscheid is Professor of Microbiology at the Instituto de Microbiologia, Faculdade de Medicina de Lisboa. He also worked as Clinical Microbiologist at the Hospital de Santa Maria up to 2010.

Professor Hänscheid trained in medicine (Germany) and worked for 8 years as a clinician in internal medicine/infectious diseases (HIV/TB) in various Hospitals in London. He specialized in Clinical Pathology in Lisbon, Portugal with a focus on clinical microbiology.

His research interests include the development of new diagnostic tests for malaria, schistosomiase and bacterial (focus on tuberculosis) diseases based on low cost fluorescent microscopy and flow/image cytometry, as well as the immune-pathogenitic role of the malaria pigment. He has  also been working on interactions of pathogens, especially malaria and TB, malaria and other respiratory pathogens, malaria and non-typhoidal Salmonella.

He has close collaborations with African Institutions especially with the Medical Research Unit of the Albert Schweitzer Hospital, Lambaréné, Gabon, which focuses on clinical research, with a particular interest in malaria and TB.