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Christian Drosten Christian Heinrich Maria Drosten ( , born 1972 in Lingen/Emsland ) is a German virologist whose research focus is on novel viruses ( emergent viruses ) . During the COVID-19 pandemic , Drosten came to national prominence as an expert on the implications and actions required to combat the illness in Germany . Early life and education . Drosten was born in Lingen and grew up on a farm in , Emsland . After graduating from the episcopal college in Meppen , Drosten initially studied chemical engineering and biology in Dortmund and Münster . From 1994 , he studied Medicine at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main and completed his third state examination in May 2000 . He did his doctorate at the Institute for transfusion medicine and immunohaematology of the German Red Cross ( DRK ) blood donation service Hessen in Frankfurt am Main . His dissertation ( Dr . med. ) on the establishment of a high-throughput system for testing blood donors was rated . Career . From June 2000 , 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 ( BNITM ) in Hamburg , where he headed the laboratory group Molecular Diagnostics and established a research program for the molecular diagnostics of tropical viral diseases . From 2007 , Drosten headed the Institute of Virology at University Hospital Bonn . During this time he worked with Isabella Eckerle , who would go on to lead the department of emerging viruses at the University of Geneva . In 2017 , he accepted a call to the Charité in Berlin , where he heads the Institute of Virology . From 2017 until 2019 , Drosten was a member of the German Ministry of Health’s International Advisory Board on Global Health , chaired by Ilona Kickbusch . 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 . COVID-19 pandemic . On 23 January 2020 , Drosten , along with other virologists in Europe and Hong Kong , published a workflow of a real-time PCR ( RT-PCR ) diagnostic test , which was accepted by the World Health Organization ( WHO ) and which sent test kits to affected regions . On 17 March 2020 , Drosten was appointed to the European Commissions advisory panel on COVID-19 , co-chaired by EC President Ursula von der Leyen and ECHSF Stella Kyriakides . On 23 March 2020 , The Guardian described Drosten as the [ German ] countrys real face of the coronavirus crisis , and also noted that the Süddeutsche Zeitung had described Drosten as the nations corona-explainer-in-chief . He was a counterpart to , head of the States Robert Koch Institute in Berlin , in consulting to German federal and state authorities . Ancillary scientific activities . Government agencies . - Centre for International Health Protection ( ZIG ) , Robert Koch Institute ( RKI ) , Member of the Scientific Advisory Board ( since 2020 ) Miscellaneous activities . - National Research Platform for Zoonoses , Member of the Internal Advisory Board - World Health Summit , Member of the Scientific Committee Editorial boards . - Emerging Infectious Diseases , Member of the Editorial Board - Eurosurveillance , Member of the Editorial Board - Journal of Clinical Virology , Member of the Editorial Board - Journal of Virology , Member of the Editorial Board - One Health Outlook , Member of the Editorial Board Recognition . At the end of 2003 , Drosten , together with Stephan Günther , was awarded a prize by the Werner Otto Foundation for the Promotion of Medical Research for the identification of the SARS coronavirus and the establishment of a rapid diagnostic test system . In 2004 , Drosten received the GlaxoSmithKline funding award for clinical infectiology , the Abbott Diagnostics Award of the European Society for Clinical Virology , the bioMérieux Diagnostics Award from the German Society for Hygiene and Microbiology , and the post-doctoral award for virology from the . In 2005 , he was awarded the Verdienstkreuz am Bande ( Cross ) of the Federal Cross of Merit , 2020 he received the Verdienstkreuz 1 . Klasse ( Officers Cross ) for his civil service in time of COVID-19 . Research . In 2003 , Drosten was one of the co-discoverers of SARS-associated coronavirus ( SARS-CoV ) . Together with , a few days after identification and before the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ( CDC ) in Atlanta , he succeeded in developing a diagnostic test for the newly identified virus . 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 . Among others , this was honoured by the journal Nature . From 2012 , the research group led by Drosten also researched the Middle East respiratory syndrome-coronavirus ( MERS-CoV ) . In mid-January 2020 , the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 yielded to his method . The virus first came to light on 30 December 2019 because Li Wenliang ( the Chinese ophthalmologist whistleblower who later died of the virus ) forced the Chinese government to broadcast its existence the next day . On 23 January 2020 , the research group led by Drosten developed a test that was made available worldwide through the journal Eurosurveillance . The group also published the sequenced genome from samples obtained in Germany . In April 2020 , the Drosten research group published a detailed virological analysis of nine cases of COVID-19 that provides proof of active virus replication in tissues of the upper respiratory tract in Nature . During early months of the course of the COVID-19 pandemic , Drosten advised politicians and authorities and was invited as an expert in the media , among others in the podcast ( English : The coronavirus update with Christian Drosten ) , initially published daily during the week since 26 February 2020 in Norddeutscher Rundfunk ( NDR ) , the frequency of the podcast having been gradually reduced from April 2020 until becoming weekly from 15 June 2020 . Personal life . Drosten lives in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg and has a son born in 2017 . References . 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