Marylyn Addo

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Marylyn Martina Addo (* 1970 in Bonn ) is a German internist , infectiologist and researcher .

Life

Marylyn Addo grew up as the daughter of a Ghanaian doctor and a German mother in Troisdorf.

From 1989 to 1996 she studied human medicine at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn with Erasmus years from 1992 to 1994 in Strasbourg and Lausanne . She completed her doctorate in Bonn and Lausanne in 1999 and in the same year obtained a diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene ( DTM & H ) at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine . Also in the same year, Addo moved to Boston , where she completed her residency at Massachusetts General Hospital in the following years and worked as a postdoc at the Partners AIDS Research Center at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School . From 2010 to 2013 she was not only Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, but also a member of the Executive Committee of the Harvard Center for AIDS Research (CFAR).

Addo has been Senior Physician and Professor for Emerging Infections (DZIF) since 2013 and head of the Infectiology Section at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf since 2015 . She is a doctor for internal medicine and her specialties are infectious diseases and tropical medicine . One focus of her research after 2014 was the development of the preparation VSV-EBOV, which can be used as a vaccine against Ebola . She was also involved in the research and vaccine development of the MERS virus . Addo and her team have been involved in the development of a vaccine against the coronavirus since 2020 . In the context of reports, she was often incorrectly referred to as a virologist, although she is an infectiologist.

Private

Marylyn Addo has two children (* 2003 and * 2009).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ NDR: Marylyn Addo: doctor and researcher with a passion. Retrieved July 27, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b Sabine Stamer : Stamers Frauen: Marylyn Addo, Like on cloud seven , welt.de of March 26, 2016
  3. ↑ a b c UKE - Doctor Profile - Marylyn Addo. Retrieved July 27, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Annick Eimer: React faster , DUZ magazine from February 22, 2019
  5. ↑ MERS coronavirus: first vaccine is clinically tested . At: Gesundheitsforschung-bmbf.de, 2018. Retrieved on March 14, 2020
  6. ↑ Interview (video) ZDF: Today from March 13, 2020; accessed on March 14, 2020
  7. ↑ NDR: Marylyn Addo: doctor and researcher with a passion. Retrieved July 10, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Rathaus Umschau 226/2019: Pettenkofer Prize awarded to two researchers. November 27, 2019, accessed May 27, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Addo, Marylyn
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Addo, Marylyn Martina (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and virologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Troisdorf