Hans-Georg Kräusslich

Hans-Georg Kräusslich studied medicine in Munich and received his doctorate in 1985. He then went on to do postdoctoral research at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and, in 1989, established his own research group focusing on HIV replication and transmission at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg. In 1995, Kräusslich was appointed to the Heinrich Pette Institute in Hamburg, a member institution of the Leibniz Association, where he served as director from 1996 to 1999. Since 2000, he has been head of the Department of Virology, and since 2004, director of the Center for Infectious Diseases at Heidelberg University Hospital.

Hans-Georg Kräusslich has published over 250 articles in peer-reviewed journals and serves as chair and member of several scientific committees. He was one of the founding directors of the Marsilius College at Heidelberg University and coordinator of the “Cellular Networks” Cluster of Excellence; he is currently the spokesperson for a DFG Collaborative Research Center, deputy chairman of the board of the German Center for Infection Research, and, until September 30, 2023, dean of the Heidelberg Faculty of Medicine. Kräusslich is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences and Humanities , the American Academy of Microbiology, and the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

He has received several academic awards, including the Gold Medal from Charles University in Prague and the Mendel Medal from the Czech Academy of Sciences and Humanities. In 2021, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Charles University in Prague, and in 2022, he received the Staufer Medal in Gold from the Minister-President of the State of Baden-Württemberg.

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