• EDUCATION
1997 MD, University of Cologne Medical School, Germany
1999 Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (DTM&H), London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
• CURRENT POSITION(S)
since 2013 – Professor of Medicine, University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany
since 2013 – Chair, Department of Virus Immunology, Heinrich-Pette-Institute, Leibniz Institute for Experimental Virology, Germany
since 2017 – Director, Institute of Immunology, University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany
• PREVIOUS POSITIONS
2001 – 2003 Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School, USA
2003 – 2006 Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School, USA
2006 – 2012 Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School, USA
2009 – 2013 Associate Member, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, USA
2012 – 2016 Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, USA
• FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
2020 ERC Advanced grant recipient
2017 Hector Research Price for HIV
2015 Heinz-Ansmann-Award for AIDS Research, Germany
2012 Honorary Master, Harvard Medical School, USA
2012 Member of the American Association of Physicians (AAP), USA
2009 Distinguished Clinical Scientist Award, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, USA
2012 Member of the American Society of Clinical Investigation (ASCI), USA
2006 Young Mentor Award, Harvard Medical School, USA
2002 Krane Award for Research Excellence, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA
2002 Investigator Award of the German Society of Infectious Diseases, Germany
2001 Maxwell Finland Young Investigator Award, Massachusetts Infectious Diseases Society
1999 – 2001 Research Fellowship, German Academic Exchange Program (DAAD), Germany
1997 – 1999 Research Fellowship, Heinrich-Ansmann-Foundation for AIDS Research, Germany
• SUPERVISION OF GRADUATE STUDENTS AND POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS
Dr. Altfeld has served as mentor for a large number of Master students, PhD students, Medical Thesis students and Postdocs since joining faculty in 2001. He was a faculty member of the Harvard Medical School Immunology Graduate Program from 2006-2016, and served on their student selection committee. From 2011-2013 he was also the Principal Investigator and Director of the Harvard University HIV Postdoctoral Training grant (T32) that provided research fellowships to Postdocs training at HMS-affiliated research laboratories. Dr. Altfeld has been highly committed to the training of young scientist, and was recognized for his efforts by HMS with the 2006 Young Mentor Award. Several postdoctoral fellows that trained with Dr. Altfeld now hold faculty positions at Harvard Medical School, including one Full Professor (Galit Alter), one Associate Professors (Xu Yu) and two Assistant Professors (Mathias Lichterfeld, Stephanie Jost), or hold faculty positions at international universities, including Hendrik Streeck (Full Professor, University of Essen, Germany), Eileen Scully (Assistant Professor, John Hopkins), Angela Meier (Assistant Professor, UCSD, USA), Marianne Mureithi (Lecturer, University of Nairobi, Kenya), Christina Thobakgale (Lecturer, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa), and Judy Chang (Lecturer, University of Melbourne, Australia).
