Mengji Lu / 陆蒙吉
The Person
- Birthplace
Jiangsu, China
- Nationality
German
- Position
Professor
- Address
Institute of Virology, University Hospital of Essen
Virchowstrasse 179, 45147 Essen, Germany
- Telephone
Tel.: 0049 201 723 3530
Fax: 0049 201 723 5929
- Email
Mengji.lu@uni-due.de
- Homepage
Education
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1978 - 1979
University of Science and Technology China in Hefei
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1979 - 1980
German language course in Tongqi-University in Shanghai, PR China
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1980 - 1983
Student of biology at Universität Bremen, Germany
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1983 -1987
Student of biology at Universität Freiburg, Germany
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1987 - 1990
Ph.D student in Prof. U. Henning´s group at Max-Planck-Institute in Tübingen, Germany
Working experiences
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1990 - 1992
Postdoc at Max-Planck-Institute in Tübingen, Germany
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1992
Postdoc at Institute of Virology of University Hospital of Essen
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1996
Research assistant (C1) at Institute of Virology of University Hospital of Essen, Germany
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2000
Appointment as guest professor, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and technology, Wuhan, China
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2002
Appointment for permanent position, Head of the group Molecular Virology ”Habilitation” in virology, faculty member and tutor for PhD student of University Hospital of Essen
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2003
Appointment as professor and head of the Department ofMicrobiology, Pathogenic Biology, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and technology, Wuhan, China
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2007
Appointment as guest professor of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Science, Wuhan, China
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2010
Appointment as apl. professor of University Hospital of Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen. Germany
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2011
Appointment as guest professor of Hubei University of Medicine, Shiyan, China
Research interests
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Viral hepatitis
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Infection immunology, innate and adaptive immunity to viral infection
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Therapeutic vaccines
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Epigenetic control of viral replication