Professor Christian Bogdan is an immunologist and board-certified physician for clinical microbiology and infectious disease epidemiology. He studied medicine at the Friedrich-Alexander-University (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, where he graduated in 1987 following a one-year clinical internship at the University College and Middlesex Hospital Medical School and the Hammersmith Hospital in London, UK. Between 1990 and 1992, he was postdoctoral researcher at Cornell University Medical College in New York, U.S.A. In 2003, he became Full Professor and Head of the Department of Medical Microbiology at the University of Freiburg, Germany. Since 2007, he has been Professor of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease Immunology at FAU and Director of the Institute of Clinical Microbiology, Immunology and Hygiene at the University Hospital Erlangen. In 2011, Christian Bogdan was elected to the National Academy of Science Leopoldina and became member of the German Standing Committee on Vaccination (STIKO) at the Robert Koch-Institute, Berlin. He currently also serves as President of the Paul-Ehrlich Society for Anti-infective Therapy.