1. Christian Drosten did his doctorate at the Institute for transfusion medicine and immunohaematology of the German Red Cross blood donation service Hessen in Frankfurt am Main.
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From June 2000, Christian Drosten worked as an intern in the laboratory group of the physician Herbert Schmitz in the virology department of the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine in Hamburg, where he headed the laboratory group Molecular Diagnostics and established a research program for the molecular diagnostics of tropical viral diseases.
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From 2007, Christian Drosten headed the Institute of Virology at University Hospital Bonn.
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From 2017 until 2019, Christian Drosten was a member of the German Ministry of Health's International Advisory Board on Global Health, chaired by Ilona Kickbusch.
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Christian Drosten is committed to the transparent distribution of scientific data and therefore, publishes in specialist journals such as Eurosurveillance, where all articles are freely available online.
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In 2017 Christian Drosten warned that the SARS virus potential needed to be investigated.
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On 17 March 2020, Christian Drosten was appointed to the European Commission's advisory panel on COVID-19, co-chaired by EC President Ursula von der Leyen and ECHSF Stella Kyriakides.
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Christian Drosten was a counterpart to Lothar Wieler, head of the State's Robert Koch Institute in Berlin, in consulting to German federal and state authorities.
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In 2003, Christian Drosten was one of the co-discoverers of SARS-associated coronavirus.
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Christian Drosten immediately made his findings on SARS available to the scientific community on the internet, even before his article appeared in New England Journal of Medicine in May 2003.
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From 2012, the research group led by Christian Drosten researched the Middle East respiratory syndrome-coronavirus.
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Christian Drosten then shared his spot on the Podcast with fellow virologist Sandra Ciesek with either being interviewed by a science journalist of the NDR every two weeks to keep the weekly schedule of the podcast while allowing Christian Drosten more time to focus on his research work.
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The last Podcasts with Christian Drosten were 29 March 2022 and 12 January 2023.
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In 2004, Christian Drosten received the GlaxoSmithKline funding award for clinical infectiology, the Abbott Diagnostics Award of the European Society for Clinical Virology, the bioMerieux Diagnostics Award from the German Society for Hygiene and Microbiology, and the post-doctoral award for virology from the Robert Koch Foundation.
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On Google Scholar, Christian Drosten has an h-index of 144 as of May 2024.
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Christian Drosten lives in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg and has a son born in 2017.