Christina Schlegl

Christina Schlegl

A physician applying AI to investigate why the immune system turns on the brain.

Biomedical Center, LMU Munich · AG Kaufmann · SyNergy

3
peer-reviewed papers
Immunity · Nature
6
years in research
inflammasome biology to machine learning
4
countries of clinical training
Switzerland · Chile · Japan · Germany
900+
children reached
Healthcare for Change, Nairobi

Curriculum

Four tracks. Pick a stop on the line to see what it was; the clinical rotations carry their flag.

Research

Clinical

Education

Scholarships and awards

All of it at once

Every entry on one timeline. Pick a bar to open it above.

Publications

All publications with abstracts and DOIs →

Full record on ORCID↗

Places

Places I've lived, visited, and still want to go.

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Lived in: Chile, Japan, Switzerland, United States of America, Germany.

Visited: Kenya, Morocco, South Africa, China, Georgia, Indonesia, Japan, Nepal, Thailand, Turkey, Vietnam, Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Czechia, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Belize, Canada, Guatemala, Mexico, United States of America, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Peru, Liechtenstein, Vatican, Macao.

Wish list: Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Jordan, Bhutan, Colombia, Ecuador, Madagascar, Yemen, Taiwan, Philippines, Finland, New Zealand, Oman, Uzbekistan, Tanzania.

  • Kenya — Healthcare for Change, Nairobi
  • Japan — Surgery at Jikei, Tokyo
  • Chile — Surgery at Universidad Católica
  • Switzerland — Neurology in St. Gallen
  • United States of America — Weill Cornell, New York
  • Georgia — Trekking in the Caucasus
  • Kyrgyzstan — Eight days on horseback, one day
  • Portugal — Including the Azores and Madeira

Off the clock

Hiking in the Alps

Mountains

Hiking in the Bavarian and Austrian Alps most weekends the weather allows.

The Big Sur coast at sunset

Traveling

Forty-odd countries so far, usually on foot once the plane lands.

Singing in a choir outdoors

Singing in a choir

The one commitment in the week that has nothing to do with science.

Volunteering with schoolchildren in Kenya

Volunteering

Global health and education projects, and organizing events for the Bavarian Elite Academy community.

Coffee at a cafe

Cooking & Coffee

The best souvenir from a trip is a dish you can make again at home — and a good coffee to go with it.

Christina Schlegl holding a camera

Photography

A beginner, mostly pointed at mountains and at food.

Beyond the bench

Projects run with other people, mostly in global health and education.

Project Lead

Healthcare for Change, Nairobi↗ · since 2019

900+children with access to care
2000+children supported indirectly through families
€110khumanitarian funding secured
  • Funding secured from the Else Kröner-Fresenius Foundation
  • Digital patient card developed with Treetop Medical
  • Support program designed for adolescent mothers

Board Member, project evaluation and oversight

Campus for Change↗ · 2021 – 2023

6health and education projects
4countries
€50k+annual project budget
60students coordinated
  • Vocational training center for seamstresses established in Cameroon
  • Partner school HIV project digitized with Celonis