Andrea Ablasser (born 1983) is a German immunologist, who works as a full professor of Life Sciences at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.
She was born in Bad Friedrichshall and moved to Buchloe at the age of three, where her father was the chief physician at the Buchloer Hospital.
She attended Gymnasiums in Türkheim and Hohenschwangau, and was inspired by her father to study medicine at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU).
[9] In 2018 she also awarded the European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant for her project “ImAgine: Exploring the link between innate Immunity and cellular Aging.” Ablasser in her own words says, "With ImAgine we aim to refine our understanding of the molecular connections between innate immunity and cellular senescence with the goal to exploit this knowledge for novel therapeutic strategies.”[10] In 2019, she was elected as an EMBO member.
[11] Ablasser was appointed as a tenured track assistant professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in the university's Global Health Institute in 2014.