Sebastian Suerbaum#
| Membership Number: | 3600 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2013 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.mvp.uni-muenchen.de |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2016 Professor for Medical Microbiology and Director, Medical Microbiology and Hospital Epidemiology, Max von Pettenkofer Institute, LMU Munich, Germany
- 2003 - 2016 Professor for Medical Microbiology and Director of the Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hospital Hygiene of the Medical University Hannover, Germany
- 1999 - 2003 Professor and Deputy Chairman at the Institute of Hygiene and Microbiology, Julius Maximilians-University Wuerzburg, Germany
- 1995 - 1999 Senior Physician and Deputy Chairman of the Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology at the Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
- 1991 - 1993 Visiting Researcher at the Institut Pasteur, Unité des Entérobactéries, Paris, France,(Fellowship of the German Research Foundation)
- 1989 - 1995 Research Assistant at the Institute of Medical Microbiology and Immunology at the Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
- 1988 Assistant Physician at the Clinical Department of the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany
Fields of Scholarship
- Genetic variation of Helicobacter pylori in connection with human migration and the adaptation of the pathogen to its host
- Intestinal microbiota and bowel diseases
- Helicobacter hepaticus, infection and cancer
- Physiology of intestinal microbiota
- Helicobacter pylori, clonal structure, genetic variability, evolution and population genetics
- Carcinogenic bacterium Helicobacter pylori and related pathogens of the gastrointestinal tract
Honours and Awards
- 2014 Elected Member, American Academy of Microbiology
- 2014 David B. Schauer Lecturer (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- 2013 Elected Member, European Academy Academia Europaea
- 2012 Heinz P.R. Seeliger-Award
- 2011 Member National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- 2007 Eva and Klaus Grohe-Award of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences
- 2007 Behring-Lecture-Award of the University Marburg
- 2004 Main Award of the German Society for Hygiene and Microbiology
- 1996 Gerhard-Hess-Award of the German Research Foundation, DFG
- 1994 Faculty Award of the Medical Faculty, Ruhr-University Bochum
- 1994 Advancement Award of the German Society for Hygiene and Microbiology
- 1982 - 1987 Fellow of the German National Academic Foundation
