Thomas Mettenleiter

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Thomas Christoph Mettenleiter (born March 18, 1957 in Göppingen ) is a German biologist and virologist. Since 1996, he has been president of the Friedrich Loeffler Institute , Federal Research Institute for Animal Health (formerly the Federal Research Center for Viral Diseases of Animals) with its headquarters on the island of Riems near Greifswald .

Life

Mettenleiter studied biology at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen and received his doctorate in 1985 with a major in genetics . After a research stay at the Department of Microbiology of the Medical School of Vanderbilt University in Nashville , USA, he worked at the Institute for Vaccines of the Federal Research Center for Viral Diseases of Animals in Tübingen until 1993 and completed his habilitation in 1990.

In 1994 he took over the management of the Institute for Molecular and Cellular Virology of the Federal Research Center for Viral Diseases of Animals on the island of Riems, today the Institute for Molecular Virology and Cell Biology of the Friedrich Loeffler Institute. In 1996 he became president of this federal research institution, which now bears the name of its founder Friedrich Loeffler again . The Friedrich Loeffler Institute (FLI) is one of the four federal research institutes in the portfolio of the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL).

In 1997, Mettenleiter was appointed adjunct professor at the Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald . His main area of ​​work is molecular virology .

Memberships

Thomas Mettenleiter is a member of numerous scientific advisory boards and societies, including a. the American Society for Microbiology , the German Society for Virology and the German Veterinary Society .

He has been a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina since 2000 and of the Academy of Sciences in Hamburg since 2008 . At the end of 2009, the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN) elected him a member of the Agriculture, Forestry and Veterinary Science Section. In 2011 he was elected a member of the Royal Belgian Academy of Medicine.

Awards

  • Aladár Aujeszky Memorial Medal (1993) from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest
  • Martin Lerche Research Prize (2007) from the German Veterinary Medical Society (DVG)
  • Honorary doctorate (2007) from the University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover
  • Rubenow Medal (2010) from the University and Hanseatic City of Greifswald
  • Lecturer (2013) of the German Society for Hygiene and Microbiology (DGHM)
  • Research award of the Greifswald University Club 2014
  • Robert von Ostertag plaque (2014) from the Federal Veterinary Association

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dissertation: Identification and mapping of the genes of herpesviral (pseudorabies virus) main glycoproteins and determination of the specific transcripts .
  2. ↑ Member entry of Thomas Mettenleiter (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on July 19, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Mettenleiter, Thomas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mettenleiter, Thomas Christoph (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German biologist and virologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Goeppingen