Award of the German Society for Hygiene and Microbiology to Mathias Hornef, MD

The German Society for Hygiene and Microbiology (DGHM) awarded the 2022 prize to Mathias Hornef, MD. Mathias Hornef studied medicine at the Karl-Eberhard-University of Tübingen, the University Lübeck, the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York (USA) and the Centre Hôpitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland. He received his medical licence in 1997 at the LMU University Munich and worked until 1999 as a clinical fellow and researcher at the Max von Pettenkofer Institut. In 2000 he was granted a research stipend of the German Research Foundation and performed a Postdoctoral Fellowship in the group of Staffan Normark at the Microbiology and Tumor Biology Center (MTC) at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm Sweden later also funded by a postdoctoral grant from the Karolinska Institut. There he worked on antimicrobial peptides and innate immune recognition at the intestinal mucosa. In 2002 he became assistant professor at the Smiddskyddsinstitutet (SMI), Stockholm with a grant from the Swedish Research Council (Svenska Vetenskapradet). In 2003 he moved back to Germany, started his own research group and completed his specialization in Medical Microbiology at the Ludwig-Albert-University of Freiburg. In 2007 he accepted a W2 professorship at Hannover Medical School (MHH) and in 2014 he become full Professor at RWTH University Aachen where he is heading a research group on neonatal infection, microbiota establishment after birth and postnatal immune maturation. He wants to thank all previous and current members of the AG Hornef for their great support during the last years!