Isabelle Bekeredjian-ding MBA, MD, PhD

Dr. Isabelle Bekeredjian-Ding, MBA, MD, Ph.D. is a Head of the Department at the Paul Ehrlich Institute. She received Medical School training at the University of Heidelberg, Padova (Italy) and Mt. Sinai, New York, and clinical residency training in Munich and Heidelberg, Germany. She has a clinical specialization in Medical Microbiology, Virology, and Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases and a Ph.D. equivalent and habilitation in immunology. In 2017, she was appointed Associate Professor for Medical Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Bonn, Germany. Before joining PEI she was deputy director of the Institute of Medical Microbiology, Immunology, and Parasitology in Bonn. Her research is focused on vaccines against nosocomial pathogens and antibiotic resistance. She is a Member of the Vaccines Working Party at EMA and of the EMA pandemic task force as well as Chair of the Scientific Committee of the IMI2 JU program of the European Commission.