Teilo Schaller

School of Materials Science and Engineering
Nanyang Technological University
50 Nanyang Avenue
Singapore 639798

email: teilo.schaller@gmail.com

Biography

Teilo Schaller grew up and spent 9 years of his life in the United States living in North Carolina. In 2009 he moved back to Germany to study Biochemistry at the Technical University of Munich. In 2012, he received his Bachelor's Degree and decided to spend a year doing research before continuing his studies. During this time he was part of the research staff at the King Abdullah University in Saudi Arabia and at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Currently, he is partaking in the Biotechnology Master Program at ETH Zurich.

Research Interests

Teilo Schaller's research interests lie in the development of alternative drug therapies for viruses, specifically Cytomegalovirus. During his bachelor's thesis at the Institute of Immunology in Munich, he isolated CD8+ T cell to be used in T-cell therapies for the treatment of cytomegalovirus infections in immunocomprised patients. At the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore he co-developed a Valganciclovir thin film that may be used as an ocular implant for the treatment of retinal Cytomegalovirus.