Eike Steinmann
Group Leader
Experimental Virology
Twincore
Germany
Biography
Eike Steinmann, born 1978 in Bremen, studied biology at Leibniz University Hannover, with emphasis on Virology, Microbiology and Molecular Biology. After a DAAD scholarship for study at Northeastern University in Boston, he completed his diploma dissertation under Prof. Herrler at the Institute for Virology of the Veterinary University of Hannover. For his Ph.D. thesis Eike Steinmann changed to the Department for Molecular Virology at the University Clinic of Heidelberg and did research in the group of Prof. Bartenschlager regarding the function of p7 protein in the HCV replication cycle. With his adviser, Prof. Thomas Pietschmann, he then was appointed to TWINCORE. His research is now concentrated on various aspects of the HCV assembly process and its release, as well as a search for new anti-viral targets. Furthermore, he is examining the environmental stability and susceptibility of HCV to disinfection agents.
Research Interest
Experimental Virology
