Isabelle Bekeredjian-Ding, PhD Paul-Ehrlich-Institut

Isabelle Bekeredjian-Ding is the Head of the Microbiology Division at Paul-Ehrlich-Institut. She is a Medical Microbiologist and Immunologist, and Associate Professor at the University of Bonn, Germany.

Isabelle received her Medical School training at the University of Heidelberg, Padova (Italy) and Mt. Sinai in New York, and the clinical training in Munich and Heidelberg.

After a PhD equivalent in T cell biology and a postdoc in dendritic cell biology, her research interest focused on immune recognition of infectious pathogens and microbiological methods.

Before joining PEI, she headed the microbiological diagnostics unit at the University Hospital in Bonn as deputy director of the Institute of Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology.