Sandra Ciesek

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Sandra Ciesek (* 1978 in Goslar ) is a German doctor and virologist . She is the director of the Institute for Medical Virology at the University Hospital Frankfurt and Professor for Medical Virology at the Goethe University . Her focus areas include new forms of therapy for hepatitis C and, more recently, the search for drugs against COVID-19 .

Career

Sandra Ciesek studied medicine at the University of Göttingen and the Hannover Medical School (MHH) from 1997 to 2003 , where she received her doctorate in 2004 with a thesis on the influence of certain dendritic cells on hepatitis C infection. She was able to prove that these cells can destroy infected cells - which is no longer the case with hepatitis C patients, so that this could be a cause for the development of a chronic hepatitis C infection. The dissertation has received several awards.

After completing her doctorate, she initially worked there as an assistant doctor until 2009.

In a DFG-funded project, she worked as a research assistant at Twincore, a joint research facility of the MHH and the Helmholtz Center for Infection Research, from 2009 to 2012 on new therapeutic approaches for hepatitis C. At the same time, she completed her habilitation in experimental gastroenterology in 2011 with a thesis on optimal immunosuppression in hepatitis C patients after a liver transplant . In 2013 she completed her specialist examination for internal medicine and gastroenterology .

Since 2011, Ciesek has headed the Viral Hepatitis Working Group at the MHH, where she was appointed adjunct professor for internal medicine at the beginning of 2016 . Shortly afterwards, in March 2016, she was appointed W2 professor for virology at the Medical Faculty of the University of Duisburg-Essen and took over as deputy head of the Institute for Virology. She completed a second specialist training in microbiology , virology and infection epidemiology by 2018, roughly at the same time as her master's degree in public health administration at the University of Nuremberg .

Sandra Ciesek has been director of the Institute for Medical Virology at the University Hospital Frankfurt since spring 2019 and is Professor of Medical Virology at Goethe University . There she will be significantly involved in research on SARS-CoV-2 , the novel coronavirus, in 2020 . In February 2020, she and her team were able to prove that symptom-free people can also be carriers and thus carriers of the virus. After the outbreak of the pandemic , Ciesek received funding of 250,000 euros from the Johanna Quandt Foundation in March 2020 within 24 hours of submitting the application for the search for effective drugs against COVID-19 .

Ciesek is a member of various guideline groups as well as national and international specialist societies.

She is married and has a daughter (* 2013).

Awards

Publications (selection)

  • Phenotype and function of human CD1c-positive dendritic cells: importance for hepatitis C virus infection . (Dissertation). Hanover 2004.
  • The hepatitis C virus infection after liver transplantation: molecular virological studies for optimal immunosuppression . (Habilitation thesis). Hanover 2010.
  • Evidence of SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Returning Travelers from Wuhan, China . February 18, 2020, doi : 10.1056 / NEJMc2001899 (English). in the New England Journal of Medicine
  • SARS-CoV-2 asymptomatic and symptomatic patients and risk for transfusion transmission . March 29, 2020, doi : 10.1101 / 2020.03.29.20039529 (English). in Transfusion_ (magazine)
  • Ad hoc laboratory-based surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 by real-time RT-PCR using minipools of RNA prepared from routine respiratory samples . March 29, 2020, doi : 10.1101 / 2020.03.30.20043513 (English).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Catalog of the German National Library. Retrieved March 18, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b Thomas Pietschmann: Cross-border commuter of hepatitis C virus research (=  research report 2010/2011 Helmholtz Center for Infection Research . Reports from research . No. 22 ). S. 28 ( helmholtz-hzi.de [PDF]).
  3. ↑ a b c Wirtschaftsclub Rhein-Main eV Retrieved on March 18, 2020 .
  4. ↑ a b c Reports from the Medical Faculty. Retrieved March 18, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Sandra Ciesek: Phenotype and function of human CD1c-positive dendritic cells: Significance for hepatitis C virus infection . Hanover 2004 ( dnb.de [accessed on March 18, 2020]).
  6. ↑ a b Arnd Schweitzer: New price joins promotions. In: idw-online.de. Informationsdienst Wissenschaft eV -idw-, October 21, 2004, accessed on March 27, 2020 .
  7. ↑ DFG - GEPRIS - Influence of Ciclosporin A on the hepatitis C non-structural protein NS2. Retrieved March 18, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Sandra Ciesek: The hepatitis C virus infection after liver transplantation: molecular virological examinations for optimal immunosuppression . Hanover 2010 ( dnb.de [accessed on March 18, 2020]).
  9. ↑ Understanding hepatitis - Prof. Dr. Sandra Ciesek is new at UDE / UK Essen. In: uk-essen.de. March 17, 2016, accessed March 18, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Detection of the new coronavirus in symptom-free travelers from Wuhan | German Center for Infection Research. Retrieved March 18, 2020 .
  11. ↑ 250,000 euros for corona research at the Goethe University - news from the Goethe University Frankfurt. Retrieved on March 18, 2020 (German).
  12. ↑ Two experts hold key positions in the fight against pathogens. In: kgu.de. Frankfurt University Hospital, accessed on March 18, 2020 .
  13. ↑ Young. Excellent. Without perspective. Retrieved March 18, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Ismar Boas Prize. Retrieved on March 27, 2020 (German).
  15. ↑ Martin Gülzow Prize. Retrieved on March 19, 2020 (German).
  16. ↑ DGIM: Prevention Award. March 17, 2020, accessed March 19, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Ciesek, Sandra
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and virologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Goslar