Claus Bartram
FORMER EVI BOARD MEMBER
Vaccines and Immunisation
European Vaccine Initiative
Germany
Biography
Claus R. Bartram graduated from the University of Hamburg in 1978 with a ´summa cum laude´ Degree in Medicine. He then went on to specialise in paediatrics and gained a DFG scholarship from Erasmus University Rotterdam, Department of Cell Biology and Genetics. In 1987, Claus was appointed Associate Professor and Head of the Section Molecular Biology in the Department of Pediatrics II at Ulm University. This was followed by an appointment to the Chair of Clinical Molecular Biology at the University of Ulm in 1993. In 1995, after obtaining his Board Certification in Human Genetics, he was appointed to the position of Chair of Human Genetics at the University of Heidelberg. Claus is currently Director of the Institute of Human Genetics at the University of Heidelberg and Dean of the Medical Faculty of Heidelberg. He is an active member of a large number of scientific committees and learned societies, e.g. DFG, Leopoldina as well as the German Medical Association, to name but a few. Several prestigious awards have been bestowed on Claus, and he has authored more than 400 articles in peer reviewed scientific journals, books and book chapters.
Research Interest
Claus’s areas of expertise can be summarised as follows: Cancer genetics, Human genetics.
