Prof. Johannes Huebner
Principal Investigator and Communications & Public Engagement Coordinator
Organisation/Institute: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Prof. Huebner studied medicine in Freiburg and completed a doctorate in hospital hygiene and infectious diseases immediately after university.
He started a specialist training in paediatrics at the University Children's Hospital Freiburg.
During a research stay at Harvard Medical School in the field of vaccine research at the Channing Laboratory his research interests focused on carbohydrate surface structures of gram-positive bacteria. The laboratory has been working on the development of a vaccine against enterococci for more than 20 years.
Until 2004, he continued this work in Boston as Principal Investigator and Assistant Professor at the Harvard Medical School and from 2004 onwards at the University Hospital of Freiburg at the division of adult infectious diseases.
In 2011, Prof. Huebner was promoted as Head of the Department of Paediatric Infectious Diseases at Dr. von Hauner's Children's Hospital, where he established one of the first paediatric antibiotic stewardship programmes in Germany.