Prof. Dr. med. Jan van Lunzen
Specialist in internal medicine/infectiology
*Independent doctor
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| 1983 - 1989 | Medical studies at the Universities of Marburg, Hamburg and Toronto |
| 1989 | License to practice medicine (doctor in internship) |
| 1990 | Doctorate at the Phillips University of Marburg |
| 1991 | Full license to practice medicine (Hamburg Medical Association) |
| 1990 - 1995 | Assistant physician and research assistant at the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg |
| 1992 | Diploma in Tropical Medicine & Hygiene |
| 1995 - 1998 | Further training as a specialist, Medical Clinic, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf |
| 1998 | Recognized as a specialist in internal medicine; senior physician at UKE since 2003 |
| 2003 | Recognized as an infectiologist (German Society for Infectiology) |
| 2004 | Habilitation and Venia legendi, University of Hamburg |
| 2005 - 2015 | Head of the Infectiology Section, Medical Clinic and Outpatient Center of the UKE |
| 2006 | Authorization for further training in infectiology & tropical medicine, additional qualification in infectiology, Hamburg Medical Association |
| 2011 | Appointment as Professor, University of Hamburg |
| 2015 - 2022 | Head of Drug Discovery & Development, GSK/ViiV Healthcare, London, UK |
| Since 2022 | Research professorship at the Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands |
Infectious diseases
- HIV/AIDS
- Viral hepatitis
- Tropical diseases (malaria, dengue, leishmaniasis, amoebiasis, etc.)
- SARS-CoV2 (Long COVID, Post COVID)
- Respiratory viruses (influenza, RSV, adenoviruses etc.)
- Tuberculosis
- Lyme disease
- Herpes viruses (CMV, EBV, VZV, HSV)
- Infectious diarrheal diseases (e.g. norovirus, salmonella, clostridia)
- Bacterial pneumonia
- Parasitoses
- Invasive mycoses
- Sexually transmitted diseases (syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia, HPV, Mpox)
- Travel medicine (vaccinations, travel medical check-ups)
Systemic diseases
- Overlap syndromes
- Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS)
- Inflammation-induced ageing ("inflammaging")
- Chronic inflammatory syndromes
- Fever of unknown origin (FUO)
- Vascular inflammation (vasculitis)
Clinical Immunology
- Autoimmune diseases
- Immunodeficiency syndromes (e.g. CVID)
- Post-vaccination syndromes
- Periodic fever syndromes (e.g. FMF)
- Microbiome-associated inflammatory syndromes
- Specialist in internal medicine
- Additional qualification in infectiology
- Diploma in Tropical Medicine & Medical Parasitology
- German Society for Infectiology (on the Board of Directors 2010-15)
- German AIDS Society
- German Society of Tropical Medicine
- German AIDS Research Prize 1998
- Meta-Alexander Prize of the German Society for Infectiology 2002
- Research Prize of the Paul Ehrlich Society 2008
- Over 245 scientific publications in peer reviewed journals (see Pubmed)
- Numerous book contributions in standard medical works
- Extensive teaching activities at the Universities of Hamburg, Windhoek (Namibia) and Nijmegen (Netherlands)
- Intensive lecturing at national and international congresses, training events and popular science events
