Ralf Bartenschlager#
| Membership Number: | 7231 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BASIC AND CLINICAL TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.klinikum.uni-heidelberg.de/zentrum-fuer-infektiologie/molecular-virology |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-5601-9307 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2016 Coordinator of the Collaborative Research Center 179 “Determinants and dynamics of elimination versus persistence of hepatitis virus infection”
- 2014 - 2023 Speaker of the research priority programme “Infection, Inflammation & Cancer” at DKFZ
- 2014 Division Head “Virus-associated carcinogenesis” at the German Cancer Research Center Heidelberg, Germany
- 2004 - 2007 Guest visiting professor at the University of Wuhan, China
- 2002 Full professor and head of the Division "Molecular Virology", Heidelberg University
- 2000 - 2002 Full professor molecular virology (C3), Institute for Virology, University of Mainz
- 1999 - 2000 Associate professor, Institute for Virology, University of Mainz
- 1994 - 1999 Assistant professor, Institute for Virology, University of Mainz
- 1991 - 1993 Postdoctoral research fellow at the central research unit of Hoffmann-La Roche AG, Basel, Switzerland
- 1977 - 1981 Police officer
Fields of Scholarship
- High-resolution imaging
- Protein - membrane interactions and lipids
- Molecular and cell biology of virus infections
- Innate immunity
- Cell-intrinsic restriction of pathogens
- Molecular virology with a focus on RNA viruses
- Antiviral therapy: Development and mode-of-action
Honours and Awards
- 1991 GFM award for best Ph.D. thesis
- 2000 Robert-Koch Research fellow award
- 2001 Loeffler-Frosch award of the German Society for Virology
- 2002 William Prusoff Young investigator award of the international society for antiviral research
- 2006 Aschoff Medal
- 2007 Gardner Lecture
- 2008 Behring Lecture
- 2013 Member of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina
- 2013 Lautenschläger Research Prize
- 2015 Robert Koch Award, jointly with Charles M. Rice
- 2016 Lasker~DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award, jointly with Charles M. Rice und Michael J. Sofia
- 2016 European Virology Award
- 2017 Hector Science Award
- 2017 Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
- 2019 McGuigan Prize for Distinguished Work in Drug Discovery
- 2019 Prince Mahidol Award for Medicine
- 2021 M.W. Beijerinck Virology Prize
- 2022 Honorary Doctoral Degree in Medicine (Dr. h.c. med.), University of Mainz
- 2022 Ernst-Jung Prize in Medicine
- 2023 Prize of the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF) for Translational Infection Research
