Gülşah Gabriel

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Gülşah Gabriel (also: Gülsah Mehmetoglu; * 1978 in Xanthi , Greece ) is a Greek-German biologist and virologist. She heads the department for viral zoonoses at the Heinrich Pette Institute in Hamburg and is professor for viral zoonoses at the University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover (TiHo). As an influenza researcher, her main focus is on the adaptation of various flu viruses in the transmission of birds to mammals and humans.

Career

Gülşah Gabriel completed a degree in biology with a focus on virology, genetics and microbiology at the Philipps University of Marburg . During her studies she made a research stay at the University of Winnipeg in Canada, where she dealt with the Ebola virus. In 2003 she made in Marburg her graduate degree in molecular biology and received a doctorate in virology 2006 Dr. rer. nat. with an investigation into the adaptation of highly pathogenic avian flu viruses to mice. After a postdoctoral study at the Institute of Virology at the University of Marburg, she went to Oxford University from 2007 to 2009 on a postgraduate scholarship . In her final year in Oxford, she received the Claude Hannoun Award from the European Scientific Workshop on Influenza for the best work complex in influenza research. In May of the same year she accepted an offer from the Heinrich Pette Institute in Hamburg to lead an Emmy Noether junior research group .

Even before her habilitation, she was elected to the European Scientific Working Group on Influenza in 2009, of which she has been Deputy Chair since 2012. In 2012 she received the Robert Koch Prize awarded by the city of Clausthal-Zellerfeld and completed her habilitation in virology at the University of Lübeck . In her habilitation, she also dealt with the viral and cellular adaptation mechanisms of influenza A viruses during the transition from one species to the other and the adaptation to their new host cells.

In 2014 Gabriel took over a professorship for virology at the University of Lübeck and head of the research group “Viral Zoonoses and Adaptation” at the Heinrich Pette Institute in Hamburg. After initially holding a visiting professorship at the University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover in 2015, she was appointed to a W3 professorship there in 2018 and at the same time took over the management of the new Viral Zoonoses - One Health department at the Heinrich Pette Institute. For this position, Gülşah Gabriel is additionally funded by the Leibniz Association's female professors program “Leibniz - Best Minds”.

The German Center for Infection Research (DZIF) awarded Gülşah Gabriel their prize for translational infection research in 2019 . It honored her contribution to the elucidation of key molecules in influenza pathogenesis , which laid “a foundation stone for the development of new active substances against other dreaded viruses, such as Zika or Ebola viruses ”, as well as the “extraordinary translational approach” of her research . This allows the effective transfer of clinical findings into research and vice versa.

Publications (selection)

  • Studies on the adaptation of a highly pathogenic avian influenza A virus of the H7N7 subtype to the mouse . (Dissertation). Marburg 2006.
  • Viral and cellular determinants of influenza A virus adaptation and pathogenesis . (Habilitation thesis). Lübeck 2012.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Catalog of the German National Library. Retrieved March 21, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b Laudation from the chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Robert Koch Foundation, Professor Jörg Hacker, on the occasion of the award of the Robert Koch Prize 2012 by the City of Clausthal-Zellerfeld to Dr. Gulsah Gabriel. (PDF) In: robert-koch-stiftung.de. 2012, accessed March 21, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b Excellent flu virus researcher at Oxford University now in Hamburg. Retrieved March 21, 2020 .
  4. ^ A b c Members and associate members. In: eswi.org. European Scientific Working group on Influenza, accessed on March 21, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Gülsah Gabriel: Studies on the adaptation of a highly pathogenic avian influenza A virus of the H7N7 subtype to the mouse . ( d-nb.info [accessed on March 21, 2020]).
  6. ^ Claude Hannoun Award for Best Body of Work. Retrieved March 21, 2020 .
  7. ↑ a b Activity report 2019 (PDF) (with a tabular curriculum vitae). In: hpi-hamburg.de. Heinrich-Pette-Institut, 2019, p. 36 , accessed on March 21, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Gülsah Gabriel: Viral and cellular determinants of influenza A virus adaptation and -Pathogenese . ( d-nb.info [accessed on March 21, 2020]).
  9. ↑ a b DZIF Prize goes to Professor Gülsah Gabriel. In: tiho-hannover.de. November 22, 2019, accessed March 21, 2020 .
  10. ↑ HPI research group leader Prof. Gülsah Gabriel receives W3 professorship for “Viral Zoonoses - One Health” at the University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover. In: hpi-hamburg.de. Heinrich Pette Institute, May 28, 2018, accessed on April 20, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Gabriel, Gülşah
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mehmetoglu, Gülsah; Gabriel, Gulsah
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek-German biologist and influenza researcher
DATE OF BIRTH 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Xanthi