Sebastian Suerbaum

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Suerbaum received his M.D. from Bochum Medical School in 1989 and is a board-certified specialist physician in Medical Microbiology and Infection Epidemiology. He performed his doctoral studies on the influence of antibiotics on the immunogenicity of outer membrane components of E. coli with Dr. Wolfgang Opferkuch, and postdoctoral work on Helicobacter pathogenesis at the Pasteur Institute with Dr. Agnès Labigne. Subsequently, he held faculty positions at the Universities of Bochum and Wuerzburg, and was appointed to his current position as Professor of Medical Microbiology and Director of the Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hospital Epidemiology at Hannover Medical School in 2003. Dr. Suerbaum’s main research interests are the molecular pathogenesis, population genetics, and genomics of Helicobacter spp.

Awards:
1994 Young Investigator Award (German Society of Hygiene and Microbiology)
1996 Gerhard Hess Award from the German Research Foundation
2004 Main Award (German Society of Hygiene and Microbiology)
2007 Behring Lecture Award (Univ. of Marburg, Germany)
2007 Eva and Klaus Grohe Award (Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences)

Other information:
Editor, Archives of Microbiology
Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Medical Microbiology
Editorial Board Member, Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group)
President, German Society of Hygiene and Microbiology
Member, German Research Council (DFG) Senate Committee for Collaborative Research Centers
Member, German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina

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