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Who did Sandra Ciesek work for from 2011 to 2016?
Sandra Ciesek Sandra Ciesek ( born 1978 ) is a German physician and virologist . She is the director of the Institute of Medical Virology at the Universitätsklinikum Frankfurt and professor of medical virology at the Goethe University Frankfurt . Her main areas of research include new forms of therapy for hepatitis C and , more recently , the search for drugs against COVID-19 . Career . Ciesek was born in Goslar in 1978 . She studied medicine from 1997 to 2003 at the University of Göttingen and at the Hannover Medical School ( MHH ) , where she received her doctorate in 2004 with a thesis on the influence of certain dendritic cells on hepatitis C infection . She was able to prove that these cells can destroy infected cells - which is no longer the case in hepatitis C patients , so that this could be a cause for the development of a chronic hepatitis C infection . The dissertation was awarded several prizes Following her doctorate , she worked there until 2009 , initially as an assistant doctor From 2009 to 2012 , she worked as a research assistant in a DFG-funded project at Twincore , a joint research facility of the MHH and the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research , where she researched new therapeutic approaches for hepatitis C . At the same time , she habilitated in experimental gastroenterology in 2011 with a thesis on optimal immunsuppression in hepatitis C patients after liver transplantation . In 2013 , she completed her specialist examination in Internal medicine and gastroenterology . From 2011 to 2016 , Ciesek has been head of the Viral Hepatitis Research Group at the MHH , where she was appointed associate professor of internal medicine at the beginning of 2016 Shortly afterwards , in March 2016 , she was appointed Professor of Virology at the Medical Faculty of the University of Duisburg-Essen and became deputy head of the Institute of Virology . She completed a second specialist training in microbiology , virology and infectious disease epidemiology Infektionsepidemiologie by 2018 , at about the same time as she obtained her Masters degree in Public Health Administration at University of Erlangen-Nuremberg . Since spring 2019 , Sandra Ciesek is the Director of the Institute of Medical Virology at the University Hospital Frankfurt and is Professor of Medical Virology at the Goethe University Frankfurt . In 2020 , she plays a key role in research on SARS-CoV-2 , the novel coronavirus . In February 2020 , she and her team were able to prove that symptom-free individuals can also be carriers and thus vectors of the virus . After the outbreak of the pandemic Ciesek received a grant of 250,000 euros from the Johanna-Quandt-Stiftung in March 2020 within 24 hours of the application being submitted for the search for effective drugs against COVID-19 . Ciesek is a member of various guideline groups as well as national and international professional societies She is married and mother of a daughter ( * 2013 ) Awards . - 2004 : Doctoral Prize of the Society of Friends of the Hannover Medical School - 2004 : Ismar Boas Prize for outstanding dissertations of the - 2010 : Martin-Gülzow-Preis der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Gastroenterologie , Verdauungs- und Stoffwechselkrankheiten - 2011 : Präventionspreis der Publications ( choice ) . - in The New England Journal of Medicine - in Transfusion External links . - Pubmed Publications