Prof. Dr. Franco Falcone

Prof. Dr. Franco Harald Falcone received a Degree in Biochemistry (Dipl.-Biochem.) in 1991, and a Degree in Biology (Dipl.-Biol.) in 1993, from the University of Tübingen. He received a PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) in Immunology from the Medical University of Lübeck in 1996 after 3 years spent working in the Research Centre Borstel. This is where he first came across human basophils and developed a keen interest in their role. A fellowship from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) took him to Edinburgh University for 2 years, followed by a brief postdoctoral period. After moving back to Germany, he worked as a Scientific Manager of the Association of Clinical Research Centers of German Universities in Münster, Germany (2001–2003). He then returned to a research career with a Wellcome Trust Research Career Development Fellowship, which took him to Nottingham, where he became Associate Professor in Allergy and Infectious Diseases. In 2019, he took up the Chair in Parasitology/Zoonoses at Justus Liebig University in Giessen, where he works on Schistosoma, Echinococcus, Taenia, and Sarcoptes scabiei, mixed with some work on Helicobacter pylori, Campylobacter and other pathogenic bacteria.