Florian Kern

Biography

Prof. Florian Kern has been Head of Immunology at JPT Peptide Technologies since Sep 2015. He has also been Chair of Immunology at Brighton and Sussex Medical School (Universities of Sussex and Brighton, Brighton, UK) since 2006 and is still active in this role. Until 2006 he headed a research group at the Institute for Medical Immunology at Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Mitte, Berlin/Germany. Prof. Kern is also a medically qualified clinical immunologist, and previously was head of the clinical immunology laboratory at Charité Mitte. He studied Medicine at the Universities of Tübingen and Düsseldorf and obtained an MD in Immunology in Düsseldorf in 1993. He later completed his Habilitation at Charité Berlin in 2002 in the field of transplantation monitoring. Prof. Kern has supervised many MD and PhD students in Germany and the UK and has published numerous international research articles with a particular interest in Cytomegalovirus and antigen specific immune responses. He is an editorial board member of Cytometry Part B: Clinical Cytometry

Research Interest

 His research interest in Immunology, Clinical Immunology and Clinical Cytometry