(2021)
Lysine methyltransferase G9a is an important modulator of trained immunity.
Clin Transl Immunology 10(2),
e1253.

Prof. Dr. Sebastian Weis
Translational Infection Medicine · Head +49 3641 532-1771 Sebastian.Weis@med.uni-jena.deCurriculum vitae
Main Research Areas
- Disease Tolerance to Infection
- Innate Immunity
- Heme Metabolism
- Metabolic Adaptation
- Sepsis
- Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia
Professional Career
since 2021 | W3 Professor for "Translational Infection Research", FSU Jena |
since 2021 | Member of the Ethics Committee, FSU Jena |
2021 | Call W2 Professorship "Inflammation and Haematopoiesis", TU Dresden, declined |
2019 | Senior Physician, Institute for Infectious Medicine and Hospital Hygiene |
2019 | Call W3 Professorship "Clinical Infectious Disease", Tübingen, declined |
2019 | Call W2 professorship "Clinical Infectiology and Immunology", UKE Hamburg, declined |
seit 2019 | Subgroup Coordinator, Cluster of Excellence "Balance of the Microverse", FSU Jena |
2018 | Subspecialisation in Clinical Infectious Disease |
2018 | Member of the Board IFB Center for Sepsis Control and Care, FSU Jena |
2018 | Member Cluster of Excellence "Balance of the Microverse”, FSU Jena |
2018 | Examiner 3rd State Examination in Human Medicine |
2017 | Habilitation and Venia legendi Internal Medicine, FSU Jena |
2015 | Training in Clinical Infectiology with Prof. M.W. Pletz, JUH |
2012-2015 | Postdoctoral Fellow, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (IGC), Portugal |
2012 | Specialist Examination in Internal Medicine |
2007-2012 | Specialist Training in Internal Medicine with Prof. J.Mössner, Leipzig University Hospital and Prof. G.Hindricks, Heart Center Leipzig |
2008 | Medical Dissertation “On Paraenzymatic Functions of Heme Oxygenease-1” (summa cum laude), University of Leipzig, Germany |
2007 | Visiting Researcher, MRC Fajara, The Gambia, West-Afrika |
2006 | Approbation/Physician's license |
2005 | Clinical Elective, Medical Research Council, Fajara, The Gambia |
2002-2003 | Visiting Researcher, Dept. of Pediatrics, Stanford University, USA |
1999-2006 | Studies of Medicine, University of Leipzig, Germany; Practical Year: Children´s Hospital of Philadelphia, USA and St. Georg Hospital, Leipzig, Germany |
Awards · Appointments · Scientific Activities
2018 | Winner Science Slam, KIT 2018 |
2018 | Best Oral Presentation Award, 10th Meeting of HO, Seoul |
2017 | Hugo-Schottmüller Award of the German Sepsis Society |
2017 | Best Abstract Award, International Sepsis Forum |
2012-2014 | DFG Fellowship for Research Abroad |
2010 | Formula 1 Research Fellowship, University of Leipzig |
2008 | Doberentz Prize of the University of Leipzig for Outstanding Dissertations |
Publications
(2021)
The COVID-19 puzzle: deciphering pathophysiology and phenotypes of a new disease entity.
Lancet Respir Med 9(6),
622-642.
(Review)
(2021)
The role of risk communication in public health interventions. An analysis of risk communication for a community quarantine in Germany to curb the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.
PLOS One 16(8),
e0256113.
(2021)
Combined glucocorticoid resistance and hyperlactatemia contributes to lethal shock in sepsis.
Cell Metab 33(9),
1763-1776.
(2021)
Antibody response using six different serological assays in a completely PCR-tested community after a coronavirus disease 2019 outbreak-the CoNAN study.
Clin Microbiol Infect 27(3),
470.e1-470.e9.
(2021)
Bridging animal and clinical research during SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: A new-old challenge.
EBioMedicine 66,
103291.
(Review)
(2019)
Ferritin regulates organismal energy balance and thermogenesis.
Mol Metab 24,
64-79.
(2018)
Remembering Pathogen Dose: Long-Term Adaptation in Innate Immunity.
Trends Immunol 39(6),
438-445.
(Review)
(2017)
Metabolic Adaptation Establishes Disease Tolerance to Sepsis.
Cell 169(7),
1263-1275.e14.
(2017)
Study on the utility of a statewide counselling programme for improving mortality outcomes of patients with Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia in Thuringia (SUPPORT): a study protocol of a cluster-randomised crossover trial.
BMJ Open 7(4),
e013976.