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Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin

Charité is the largest German university teaching hospital with over 3,000 beds, multiple outpatient clinics and 17,000 employees. The Institute of Virology and the associated company Labor Berlin provide diagnostic service to Charité, covering all human viruses and producing over 100,000 diagnostic records annually. The Institute of Virology has major expertise in the investigation of emerging pathogens, including field work in temperate and tropical regions, genomic detection and characterization and experimental risk assessments. It contains BSL-2 and BSL-3 laboratory space and has access to BSL-4 laboratory space through cooperation agreements.

Web page: http://virologie-ccm.charite.de

 

Key publications

  • Drexler JF, et al. Bats host major mammalian paramyxoviruses. Nat Commun. 2012;3:796.
  • Drexler JF, et al. Evidence for novel hepaciviruses in rodents. PLoS Pathog. 2013;9(6):e1003438.
  • Drexler JF, et al. Bats carry pathogenic hepadnaviruses antigenically related to hepatitis B virus and capable of infecting human hepatocytes. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2013 Oct 1;110(40):16151-6.
  • Drexler JF, et al. Evolutionary origins of hepatitis A virus in small mammals. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2015 Dec 8;112(49):15190-5.
  • Drexler JF, et al. Robustness against serum neutralization of a poliovirus type 1 from a lethal epidemic of poliomyelitis in the Republic of Congo in 2010. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2014 Sep 2;111(35):12889-94.

Staff involved in HONOURs

Prof dr. Jan Felix Drexler, MD

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Prof dr. Jan Felix Drexler, MD (WP5-Leader) is an expert in virus discovery, PCR diagnostics, and viral ecology. Jan Felix Drexler will supervise ESR-4.

HONOURs

Host switching pathogens, infectious outbreaks and zoonosis; a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network.

This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 721367.