1 April 2014, 16:00
Prof. Dr. Stefan Kaufmann: About the Use, Misuse and Dual Use of Microbial Pathogens
MPI-CBG Auditorium
Spectacular breakthroughs in the life sciences are often characterized by a dual-use dilemma. How can we ensure that knowledge from research labs is used for protection, not aggression?
The seminar is part of the Science&Society lecture series.
Everybody is welcome!
Prof. Dr. Stefan H.E. Kaufmann is Founding Director of the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Berlin and has been heading the Immunology Department there since 1993. He is Professor for Microbiology and Immunology at the Charité University Clinics, Berlin (since 1998), Guest Professor at the Tongji University, School of Medicine, Shanghai, China (since 2011), Honorary Professor at the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru (since 2012), and Visiting Professor, Peking Union Medical College, Beijing (since 2014), China. He received a honorary doctorate from the University Marseille, France.