Nominator's project description
| Professor Rotem Sorek from the Weizmann Institute of Sciences, Israel
Professor Sorek is a world-leading microbiologist and has made seminal discoveries on how microbes defend themselves against phages, which are viruses of bacteria. Many of the defense systems discovered by him show unexpected similarity to the innate immune system of humans. While in Germany, Rotem Sorek and his hosts intend to identify hitherto unknown antiviral defense strategies of the human immune system with the help of bacterial anti-virus defense mechanisms, which could be used in new therapies for treating infections.
Professor Sorek is hosted by Professor Jörg Vogel at the Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research in Würzburg and Professor Veit Hornung at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. |
