Stephan Becker (virologist)

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Stephan Becker (born December 2, 1960 in Wetzlar ) is a German virologist , professor of virology and head of the Institute of Virology at the Philipps University of Marburg .

Life

He studied pharmacy at the Philipps University of Marburg and received his doctorate in biochemistry in 1988 . During his postdoctoral studies and his work as an assistant professor, he researched Marburg and Ebola viruses and completed his habilitation with studies on the replication and transcription of the Marburg virus in 2000. In 2003 he was involved in the discovery of the SARS coronavirus . From 2006 and 2007 he headed a working group at the Center for Biosafety at the Robert Koch Institute . At the end of 2007 he was appointed Professor of Virology and Director of the Institute of Virology at the Philipps University of Marburg. There he heads a special research area on RNA viruses and a section of the German Center for Infection Research .

Scientific research focus

His main research interests are the molecular biology of arena and filoviruses as well as the development of new vaccine strategies against highly pathogenic pathogens. He is particularly interested in zoonotic viruses, which can cause serious diseases in humans. Together with Rino Rappuoli , Antonio Lanzavecchia and colleagues he developed a variant of the hybridoma technique using the Epstein-Barr virus for immortalization of B-cells .

Memberships in scientific societies

  • Member of the scientific advisory board of the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), Berlin
  • Member of the scientific advisory board of the Friedrich Loeffler Institute (FLI), Riems,
  • Member of the European network for the diagnosis of "imported" viral diseases (ENIVD)
  • Member of the BSL-4-User Group (International High Security Laboratories)
  • Founding member of the EuroNet-P4-Initiative (ENP4-Net, QUANDHIP; EMERGE)
  • Member of the Executive Board of the German Society for Virology
  • Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
  • Member of the German Research Foundation's review board
  • Delegate of the Federal Republic of Germany in the Global Health Security Action Group (GHSAG) (2005–2008)
  • Member of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences

Advisory board activities

  • J. Biol. Chemistry (2005-2011)
  • Ad hoc reviewers: Cell, Lancet, Molecular Cell, PLOS Path., J. Virol., J. Gen. Virol., FEBS ‐ Letters, FEMS Immunol., Protein Engin., Arch. Virol., Med. Microbiol. Immunol.
  • Society for Virology eV

Honors and prizes

  • 2010: Medal “100 Years of Virology” Russian Academy of Medical Sciences

Individual evidence

  1. ^ University of Marburg: Stephan Becker , accessed on April 27, 2016.
  2. Jump up ↑ E. Traggiai, S. Becker, K. Subbarao, L. Kolesnikova, Y. Uematsu, MR Gismondo, BR Murphy, R. Rappuoli, A. Lanzavecchia: An efficient method to make human monoclonal antibodies from memory B cells: potent neutralization of SARS coronavirus. In: Nature Medicine . Volume 10, Number 8, August 2004, ISSN  1078-8956 , pp. 871-875, doi : 10.1038 / nm1080 , PMID 15247913 .
  3. ↑ Member entry by Prof. Dr. Stephan Becker (with CV) at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on May 17, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Becker, Stephan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German virologist, professor of virology and head of the Institute of Virology at the University of Marburg
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd December 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Wetzlar