Lars Schaade

Lars Schaade (* 1966 ) is a German doctor . He is a specialist in microbiology and infection epidemiology , has been head of the “Center for Biological Hazards and Special Pathogens (ZBS)” since 2010 and has been Vice President of the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin since 2011 . He has been an honorary professor at the Charité since 2017 .

life and career

From 1985 to 1987 he did his community service in Nienburg. Schaade began studying human medicine at the Georg-August University in Göttingen in 1987 and received his doctorate there in 1994 ; Dissertation was "Isolation and structural analysis of two cytostatically active gangliosides from mouse macrophages" .

From 1995 to 1996 Schaade worked as a research assistant in the Medical Microbiology of the University of Göttingen , from 1996 at the Institute for Medical Microbiology of the University Clinic of the RWTH Aachen . From 2000 to 2002 he was employed there as a scientific assistant (teaching and research area virology ). In 2000 he was also appointed a specialist in microbiology and infection epidemiology by the North Rhine Medical Association . 2003 Habilitation in medical microbiology and virology at the Medical Faculty of RWTH Aachen University. From 2002 to 2007 he worked as a consultant in the department “Communicable Diseases, AIDS, Epidemic Hygiene” at the Federal Ministry of Health , Bonn and Berlin; from 2006 he was deputy head of unit, from 2007 to 2010 head of unit. Since 2010 he has been department head of the "Center for Biological Hazards and Special Pathogens (ZBS)" and since April 2011 Vice President of the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin. In 2017 he was appointed honorary professor at the Charité in Berlin.

Web links

• Lars Schaade's curriculum vitae on the Robert Koch Institute website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Nicola Siegmund-Schultze: Lars Schaade: New Vice President of the Robert Koch Institute , aerzteblatt.de, 16/2011