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Christian Haddad
Principal Investigator
Christian Haddad is the principal investigator of ALTERBIOTIC and an Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) in the social studies of Medicine, Planetary Health and Biopolitics at the University of Vienna. Trained in social sciences with a long-standing interest in the life sciences and social theory, Haddad received his PhD from the University of Vienna in 2016 with a thesis on the scientific, economic and ethical tensions involved in the clinical development of stem cell therapies. Haddad’s current research takes antimicrobial resistance as a window to investigate shifting scientific, political and economic regimes underpinning global health, biomedical R&D and pharmaceutical innovation.