Prof. Georg MN Behrens is Professor for T Cell Immunology in the Department for Rheumatology and Immunology at Hannover Medical School, Hannover Germany. He graduated in medicine in 1995 and did his clinical training in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases. From 2001-2003, he went as a postdoc to the Immunology Division at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute for Medical Research, Melbourne, Australia and returned to Hannover to become a professor for immunology.
Georg Behrens is an acknowledged expert in HIV Medicine and Immunology and head of HIV Medicine at Hannover Medical School. He has worked on antigen presentation by dendritic cells (e.g. cross-presentation), anti-viral immunity, autoimmunity and immune response after vaccination. His work was published in journals including Nat Med, Nat Immunol, Lancet, Lancet ID, J Clin Invest, Clin Infect Dis, AIDS, and others.
Until 2022, Georg Behrens was Chair of the EACS Treatment Guidelines and he was president of the German AIDS Society for many years. He is principal investigator of national and international studies in HIV medicine and NEAT ID Executive Member. He is chair of the MD/PhD Program “Molecular Medicine”, Co-Editor of HIV Medicine and Co-chair of the HIV research group of the German Center for Infection Research.
