Heinz Feldmann, MD, PhD, Pr. Dr. Chief, Laboratory of Virology
Chief, Disease Modeling and Transmission Section, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, USA.
Heinz Feldmann was born in Lippstadt, Germany, in 1959. He graduated from Medical School in 1987 (MD) and received his PhD in 1988 both from the University of Marburg, Germany. His postdoctoral research was conducted in the field of virology (filoviruses and hantaviruses) at the Institute of Virology, University of Marburg, Germany, and the Special Pathogens Branch at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, U.S.A, where he held a fellowship from the ‘National Research Council’. Following his postdoctoral training he held the position of an assistant and associate professor, with the Institute of Virology at the University of Marburg, Germany. During this time he was trained as an infectious disease specialist with focus on laboratory diagnostics. From 1999-2008, Heinz Feldmann held the position of Chief, Special Pathogens Program of the National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada. Since 2008, he is the Chief, Laboratory of Virology at the Rocky Mountain Laboratories (RML), DIR NIAID, NIH, and the Chief Scientist of the RML BSL4 Laboratories. In addition, he is an Associate Professor with the Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Manitoba. Heinz Feldmann is the laboratory expert on high containment viruses (BSL4) and serves as a consultant on viral hemorrhagic fevers and related pathogens for the World Health Organization and, thus, has field experience and expertise in outbreak management. His professional interest is in the pathogenesis and transmission of hemorrhagic fever viruses, such as filoviruses, arenaviruses and bunyaviruses, and other special viral pathogens (high containment, BSL3 and BSL4), and the development of countermeasures against those pathogens. Heinz Feldmann’s scientific contribution includes over 330 scientific publications, 6 patents and over 220 invited lectures at conferences and seminars worldwide. Heinz Feldmann was awarded with several honors including the ‘Löffler-Frosch Award’ from the German Society for Virology (DGV), the ‘Dalrymple/Young Award’ by the American Committee on Arthropod-Borne Viruses (ACAV), and Research Merit Awards from the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).