Dec 4, 2020
(English subtitles)
https://youtu.be/nO1uTHpPXRY
Suchrid Bhakdi studied at the Universities of Bonn, Gießen, Mainz and Copenhagen, and at the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics in Freiburg.
He studied medicine at the University of Bonn from 1963 to 1970, during part of which (from 1966 to 1970) he was a scholarship holder of the German Academic Exchange Service. Bhakdi worked for a while as a private assistant to the internal medicine specialist Walter Siegenthaler. In February 1971 he received his doctorate in medicine. From 1972 to 1974, he held a scholarship from the Max Planck Society at the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology in Freiburg. From 1974 to 1976, he also received a scholarship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Max Planck Institute for Immunobiology in Freiburg.
After a one-year stay at the University of Copenhagen, he worked from 1977 to 1990 at the Institute of Medical Microbiology at the Justus Liebig University in Gießen. In July 1979 he habilitated. He was appointed C2 professor in 1982 and C3 professor of medical microbiology in 1987 before being appointed to the University of Mainz in 1990. From 1991 he headed the Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene as a C4 professor.
Bhakdi retired on 1 April 2012. Since 2016 he has been a visiting scholar at the University of Kiel.