Joachim Denner PhD Institute of Virology, Freie Universität Berlin
Joachim Denner PhD Institute of Virology, Freie Universität Berlin Head of laboratory
Dr. Joachim Denner, Dir. u. Prof. a.D., Institute of Virology at the Free University Berlin, studied biochemistry, specialization virology. Beginning with his diploma he worked on retroviruses, first leukemia viruses of mice, later human endogenous retroviruses, simian and human immunodeficiency viruses (HIV). His laboratories at the Paul Ehrlich Institute and the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) worked on vaccine development against HIV-1, porcine endogenous retroviruses (PERVs) and Koala retrovirus. He also worked on the mechanism how retroviruses cause immunosuppression. He has authored more than 200 original articles and 100 reviews and book chapters. Dr. Denner works as reviewer for many scientific journals and foundations. From 2017 until 2020 he worked as Robert Koch Fellow at the RKI and since than in the Institute of Virology at the Free University Berlin. Since 1997 he is involved in research on PERVs and virus safety of xenotransplantation. The development of highly sensitive methods for the detection of potential zoonotic and xenozoonotic porcine viruses is an essential part of these investigations