Kristie Bloom completed her PhD at AGTRU in 2013 where she developed genome engineering agents to permanently disable HBV. As a post-doctoral researcher at the Uniklinik Freiburg, Germany, she investigated stem cell gene therapy approaches for the treatment of paediatric immunodeficiencies. Since re-joining AGTRU, her research has focused on developing anti-HBV gene therapies and mRNA vaccines for infectious diseases.