Ulrike Protzer

Prof. Ulrike Protzer studied medicine in Germany, South Africa and Switzerland. She is an expert clinical virologist with clinical training in infectious diseases and hepatology before she focused on virology. Her scientific efforts focus on understanding the interaction between viruses and their hosts and on translating this knowledge into novel therapies and vaccines. Since 2007, she is a professor for Virology at the Technical University of Munich and at Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen. She is leading three national and international research consortia, was member of the executive board of the German Center for Infection Research and now is the speaker of its Thematic Translational Unit “Viral Hepatitis”. She has published more than 145 peer-reviewed papers and 30 review articles and holds several international patents.