Álvaro Borges is an infectious diseases physician-scientist educated in Brazil, the United Kingdom and Denmark. He has an MSc degree in Tropical and Infectious Diseases by the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (2011) and a PhD in Immunology and Infectious Diseases by the University of Copenhagen (2015). Álvaro has more than 12 years’ experience with multinational trials involving participants with infectious diseases. He has considerable expertise in clinical research, clinical trials, infectious diseases, vaccines, epidemiology, tropical medicine and HIV. He has joined the Center for Vaccine Research (CVR) at Statens Serum Institut in Denmark as Chief Medical Officer to work on clinical trials testing new candidate vaccines against tuberculosis and chlamydia in humans.
