Professor Dr. Volker Lohmann

Address Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg
Department für Infektiologie
Abteilung Molekulare Virologie
Im Neuenheimer Feld 345
69120 Heidelberg

Projects

As Applicant
- Current projects
  - Phenotypic analysis of Hepatitis C virus evolution in the post-transplant setting: Understanding mechanisms of rapid fitness adaptation to a new environment (Research Grants)
- Completed projects
  - Regulation of hepatitis C virus RNA synthesis by viral nonstructural proteins and an essential host factor (Research Grants)
  - Mechanisms of immune evasion by hepatitis C virus and their role in establishment of viral persistence (Research Units)
  - Shaping the lipid landscape of the membraneous viral replication organelles by Hepatitis C virus (Research Grants)
As Project Head
- Current projects
  - Contribution of innate immune responses to persistence versus clearance of hepatitis C and hepatitis A virus infections (CRC/Transregios)
  - Integrated Research Training Group “Immunovirology” (CRC/Transregios)
- Completed projects
  - Impact of Hepatitis C Virus Core and NS5A on Induction of Pro-carcinogenic Alterations and HCC Development (CRC/Transregios)
  - Hepatitis C virus induced dysregulation of lipid metabolism and implications for HCC development (CRC/Transregios)