Janika Schmitt

Janika Schmitt is a Program Officer at Sentinel Bio, a philanthropic fund focused on biotechnology governance.

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Previously, she was a Non-Resident Fellow at the Institute for Progress, conducted virology research for her medical doctorate at the University of Cambridge, and worked on pathogen early warning at MIT. She has held fellowships at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, the German Center for Infection Research, and Foresight Institute.

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Janika is a licensed physician in Germany and studied medicine in Heidelberg, Oxford, and at Charité Berlin.