Ulrike Protzer MD

Professor Protzer (b. 1962) works on the virus-host-interaction of the hepatitis B virus. Her research is aimed at advancing our understanding of the molecular and immunological mechanisms of virus control. Together with her workgroup, she utilizes the knowledge thus gained to develop new therapeutic approaches for the treatment of chronic hepatitis B and of secondary diseases resulting from the virus.

Professor Protzer studied medicine at the universities of Erlangen, Basel, and Durban (South Africa) and obtained her doctorate in Erlangen in 1989. After further training in gastroenterology and infectiology in Frankfurt and Mainz, she acquired the specialist qualifications for internal medicine in 1996. She spent a postdoctoral period at the Center for Molecular Biology in Heidelberg from 1996 to 2000 and completed her postdoctoral teaching qualification in virology in 2000. She then embarked upon a second course of clinical training as a specialist in microbiology, virology and infection epidemiology (2005). From 2002 to 2007 she led a junior research group at the University of Cologne’s Center for Molecular Medicine. In late 2007 she was appointed to the Chair of Virology at TUM and has since then been a director of the Institute of Virology at the Technical University of Munich and at the German Research Center for Environmental Health, Helmholtz Zentrum München.