Sebastian Suerbaum

Sebastian Suerbaum (born February 9, 1962 in Münster ) is a German microbiologist .

Life

Sebastian Suerbaum was born as the son of the Englishist Ulrich Suerbaum . He studied medicine at the Ruhr University Bochum with semesters abroad at the University of Vienna and the Harvard Medical School in Boston. In 1988 he received his doctorate. He worked as an assistant doctor at the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine in Hamburg, then at the Institute for Medical Microbiology and Immunology in Bochum. From 1991 to 1993 he was a postdoc at the Pasteur Institute in Paris. In 1994 he received the title of specialist in microbiology, virology and infection epidemiology . In 1995 Suerbaum received his habilitation . From 1995 to 1999 he was the senior physician in charge of the Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology at the Ruhr University Bochum.

In 1999 he accepted a position as C3 professor at the Institute for Hygiene and Microbiology at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg . In 2003 he took over a C4 professorship at the Hannover Medical School (MHH) and at the same time became director of the Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hospital Hygiene at the MHH. Since 2016 he has been W3 Professor and Head of Medical Microbiology and Hospital Hygiene at the Max von Pettenkofer Institute of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

From 2010 to 2014 he was President of the German Society for Hygiene and Microbiology . He has been a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Robert Koch Institute since 2013 and was elected Chairman of the Advisory Board in 2018.

Research priorities

Suerbaum has particularly contributed to international groundbreaking research into the Helicobacter pylori bacterium . His working group at the MHH has u. a. investigated the population genetics, evolution and pathoevolution of H. pylori and related bacterial species and related them to human host populations of different ethnic origins.

honors and awards

• Gerhard Hess Prize of the German Research Foundation (1996)
• Main Prize of the German Society for Hygiene and Microbiology (2004)
• Behring Lecture Science Prize of the Philipps University of Marburg (2007)
• Eva and Klaus Grohe Prize of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (2007)
• Member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (since 2011)
• Heinz PR Seeliger Prize (2012)
• Member of the Academia Europaea
• Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology
• Fellow of the European Academy of Microbiology
• Karl Georg von Boroviczény Medal (2019)

Web links

• Literature by and about Sebastian Suerbaum in the catalog of the German National Library
• CV with list of publications, Hannover Medical School

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Member entry by Sebastian Suerbaum at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on May 29, 2013.
2. ↑ Stomach diseases and their pathogens , press release of the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 1996, No. 34 (February 6, 1996), accessed on January 7, 2017.
3. ↑ Sebastian Suerbaum, Gerd-Dieter Burchard, Stefan HE Kaufmann, Thomas F. Schulz (eds.): Medical microbiology and infectious diseases. 2016, ISBN 978-3-662-48677-1 .
4. ^ Communication from the RKI May 12, 2020.
5. ↑ Press release from the Ruhr University Bochum
6. ^ Winner of the main prize of the DGHM
7. ↑ Behring Lecture 2007 by microbiologist Sebastian Suerbaum on Helicobacter pylori
8. ^ "Prize winners Eva and Klaus Grohe Prize 2007"
9. ↑ Professor Suerbaum is a new member of the Academia Europaea. Press release from November 21, 2013 at the Science Information Service (idw-online.de)
10. ↑ AAM Newly Elected Fellows 2014
11. ↑ FEMS EAM Members ( Memento from May 18, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
12. ↑ mvp.uni-muenchen.de