Pandemics and Alertness Co-leader WG1 (Understanding the virus), LINXS Fellow

Professor of Molecular Virology, Institute of Virology, Philipps-University Marburg, Marburg, Germany

Eva Friebertshäuser studied biology at the Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen and the Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany, with the focus on molecular biology, microbiology and virology, followed by a PhD thesis and post-doc period at the Institute of Virology at the Philipps-Universität Marburg. Since 2015, she has been Professor of Molecular Virology at the institute. Her research interest is the proteolytic activation of viral envelope proteins by host cell proteases and the development of protease inhibitors as novel antiviral drugs. Her research group first identified the transmembrane protease TMPRSS2 as virus-activating protease and made the most significant contributions to understanding how respiratory viruses are proteolytically activated to induce fusion.