Dr. Ulrich Desselberger has been an Honorary Senior Visiting Fellow at the Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, since 2014. He earned his MD degree at the Free University Berlin in 1967 and habilitation in medical microbiology at Hannover Medical School in 1976. From 1977 to 1979, he carried out postgraduate studies on influenza viruses at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. In 1980, he became a Senior Lecturer of Virology at the University of Glasgow and an Honorary Consultant of the Greater Glasgow Health Board. In 1987, he became Consultant Virologist and Director at the Regional Virus Laboratory, East Birmingham Hospital. From 1990, he served as a Consultant Virologist and Director of the Clinical Microbiology and Public Health Laboratory, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, retiring in 2002. He spent the following 5 years as a Visiting Research Fellow at UMR Virologie Moléculaire et Structurale, CNRS, and the International Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Italy. From 2007 to 2013, he worked as the Director of Research in the Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke’s Hospital. His research interests comprise the molecular biology of rotaviruses and other major enteropathogenic viruses, the molecular biology of influenza viruses, factors determining viral pathogenicity, and viral immune responses. He is a member of the American Society of Virology, American Society of Microbiologists, Microbiology Society, and European Society of Virology.