Georg Lauer, M.D. Ph.D., studied medicine in Tübingen, Hamburg, and Bochum, Germany. After clinical training, he moved to the Partner AIDS Research Institute at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School for a postdoctoral fellowship in HCV T-cell immunology under Bruce Walker. His own lab is also located at MGH and HMS and he continues to study antigen-specific T cells in human infections in different acute and chronic infectious diseases. Over the last few years, his scientific focus has included HBV infection with the aim to profile HBV-specific CD4 as well as CD8 T-cells directly ex vivo in order to elucidate the characteristics of protective responses associated with functional cure as well as the mechanisms of T-cell dysfunction that need to be targeted by immunotherapies.
