Kendra Alfson, Ph.D.
Kendra Alfson, Ph.D.
Research Focus
Dr. Alfson serves as a Scientific Support Manager. Her work supports studies designed to advance vaccine and therapy development for high consequence pathogens and biothreats, such as filoviruses. A primary objective of these studies is to characterize Filovirus disease (FVD) in macaques following exposure via different routes, in order to develop well-characterized models that we then use for efficacy testing of therapeutics and vaccines.
Dr. Alfson received her Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at UT Health San Antonio and then worked as a postdoctoral scientist at Texas Biomed. She has eight years of BSL3 and BSL4 experience with a background in molecular biology and virology. Her graduate and postdoctoral work focused on investigating the evolution of filoviruses and alphaviruses to characterize the biological effects of viral evolution.