Chronic viral hepatitis
Hepatitis B virus-host interaction (Prof. Dr. Ulrike Protzer)
Head of the Group
Ulrike Protzer studied medicine and finished trainings as a specialist for Internal Medicine with a focus on hepatology and infectious diseases and as a specialist for in Medical Microbiology, Virology and Infection Epidemiology working with Karl-Hermann zum Büschenfelde, Guido Gerken, Georg Kräusslich and Martin Krönke. She did her scientific postdoctoral training with Heinz Schaller at the Center for Molecular Biology Heidelberg (ZMBH, Molecular Biology of Hepatitis B Viruses), where she also passed her “habilitation”. At the University of Cologne she was appointed as a junior group leader before she was became chair of virology at the Technische Universität München heading the Institute of Virology there and at the Helmholtz Zentrum München.
Short CV
Members of the group
Postdocs
Silke Arzberger
Christian Bach
Julie Lucifora (supported by an EASL Sheila Sherlock fellowship)
Kathrin Singethan
Martin Sprinzl (holds a clinical leave stipend of the Helmholtz Alliance on Immunotherapy)
PhD students
- Nina Böttinger
- Mathias Broxtermann
- Jiaoming Cheng*
- Knud Esser
- Clemens Jäger
- Karin Krebs
- Leon Stross**
- Yuchen Xia*
- Ke Zhang
- Steffi Graf
supported by stipends from *Chinese Science Council and **Friedrich Naumann foundation
Technicians
- Theresa Asen
- Raindy Tedjokusumo
- Andrea Weicht
Former group members
- Simone Backes, PhD (Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, USA)Uta Zedler, PhD (Helmholtz Research Center Jülich)
- Maria Quasdorff, MD PhD (NIH / University Hospital Cologne)
- Marianna Hösel, PhD (University of Cologne)
- Miriam John von Freyend, PhD (University of Cologne)
- Gregor Ebert, PhD (Walter & Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, Australia)
- Felix Bohne, PhD (Institut d’ Investigacions Biomedique, Barcelona, Spain)
- Gesa von Olshausen, MD (University Hospital rechts der Isar, Munich)