Hans-Georg Kräusslich
Hans-Georg Kräusslich (born February 11, 1958 in Passau ) is a German virologist .
Life
Hans-Georg Kräusslich studied medicine at the LMU Munich and received his doctorate in 1985. He then went to Eckard Wimmer's group at the State University of New York at Stony Brook as a postdoc and in 1989 he established his own group on the morphogenesis and replication of HIV at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg. In 1995 he was appointed professor at the Heinrich Pette Institute in Hamburg (an institute of the Leibniz Society), of which he was director from 1996 to 1999. Since 2000, Kräusslich has been the head of virology at Heidelberg University Hospital and since 2003 director of the Institute for Infectious Diseases. He is chairman of the board of the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF, since 2019), coordinator of the CellNetworks Cluster of Excellence (2006-2019), as well as spokesman for the DFG Collaborative Research Center 1129. Kräusslich is a member of the BioQuant founding board of directors and, together with Wolfgang Schluchter, founding director of the University's Marsilius Kolleg Heidelberg (term of office 2008–2014).
Work area
Krausslich's field of work includes molecular virology and the cellular processes involved in viral infections . Virus-host interactions, especially after infection with the HI virus , are a focus of his work.
Awards and honors
Hans-Georg Kräusslich is an elected member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences (Secretary of the Natural Science Class 2015–2019) and the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . He has received several scientific prizes and was awarded the Golden Medal of the Charles University in Prague and the Mendel Medal of the Czech Academy of Sciences .
Publications (selection)
Hans-Georg Kräusslich is the author or co-author of over 200 scientific publications.
Web links
- Publications by Hans-Georg Kräusslich in the United States National Library of Medicine
- Publications by Hans-Georg Kräusslich in the ORCID database
- Interview with Hans-Georg Kräusslich (2002)
- CV of Hans-Georg Kräusslich (English; PDF; 137 kB)
- Heidelberg virologists make the HI virus shine
- Portrait at the University of Heidelberg
- Member entry by Hans-Georg Kräusslich at the National Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina, accessed on February 2, 2020.
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Krausslich, Hans-Georg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German virologist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 11, 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Passau |