Pandemics and Alertness member WG1 (Understanding the virus), LINXS Fellow

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

Dr. Strecker graduated from the Philipps University Marburg, Germany, and obtained his doctoral degree in Virology from the same university in 2007. Since 2015, he holds a research group leader position at the Institute of Virology in Marburg. His primary research focuses on the molecular biology of the highly pathogenic Lassa virus, particularly on the functional roles of the envelope surface glycoprotein and matrix protein in virus entry and the late stages of the replication cycle, namely virus assembly and release. In addition to these basic research objectives, Dr. Strecker and his team have participated in various multinational collaborative Ebola virus projects, focusing on the characterization of antibody responses to vaccination and natural infection. As a member of the European Mobile Laboratory consortium, he served multiple times as a team leader of multinational field diagnostic teams that were deployed in response to the 2014-2016 West African Ebola virus outbreak and the Marburg virus outbreak in Uganda in 2017.