Ulrich von Both graduated from medical school at university of Giessen, Germany, in 2002. He then trained in paediatrics and infectious diseases with placements in Germany, Switzerland, Swaziland, South Africa and the UK. He board-certified in general paediatrics, infectious diseases, and hospital epidemiology and continuously worked towards linking clinical and scientific aspects of paediatric infection research. He was awarded an ESPID Research Fellowship Award and an ESCMID Research grant in 2012 supporting a 3-year post-doc stay with Prof Mike Levin’s group at Imperial College London studying the molecular mechanisms of immune subversion in mycobacterial disease, particularly to M. tuberculosis, by means of host transcriptional profiling.
Since 2015 he is engaged in routine clinical ID services for the 180 beds LMU Munich paediatric hospital, in the antibiotic stewardship program and in leading the TB, HIV and migrant health outpatient clinics. He is part of the German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF) co-coordinating aspects on personalized medicine, working towards transcriptional biomarker discovery from TB treatment cohorts.
Ulrich is actively engaged in EU-funded Horizon 2020 projects (PERFORM & DIAMONDS consortia) and is the medical lead of an innovative telemedicine-based national consortium project on antibiotic stewardship funded by the German government (TeleKasper). He recently established the Pediatric Migrant and Public Health Center Munich, a new health care service structure aiming to improve access and quality of medical care provided to refugee & migrant children and their families in Munich.
