Prof. Dr. Sebastian Weis

Translational Infection Medicine · Head +49 3641 532-1771 Sebastian.Weis@med.uni-jena.de

Curriculum 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 3^rd 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

Asantewaa G, Godwin Anabire N, Bauer M, Weis S, Neugebauer S, Quaye O, Helegbe GK (2023) Serum metabolome signatures characterizing co-infection of Plasmodium falciparum and HBV in pregnant women. Diseases 11(3), 94.

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Bahrs C, Weis S, Kesselmeier M, Ankert J, Hagel S, Beier S, Maschmann J, Stallmach A, Steiner A, Bauer M, Behringer W, Baier M, Richert C, Zepf F, Walter M, Scherag A, Kiehntopf M, Löffler B, Pletz MW (2023) Non-patient-related SARS-CoV-2 exposure from colleagues and household members poses the highest infection risk for hospital employees in a German university hospital: follow-up of the prospective Co-HCW seroprevalence study. Infection 51(4), 1051-1059.

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Powell RE, Soares MP, Weis S (2023) What's new in intensive care: disease tolerance. Intensive Care Med [Epub ahead of print]

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Schnizer C, Andreas N, Vivas W, Kamradt T, Baier M, Kiehntopf M, Glöckner S, Scherag A, Löffler B, Kolanos S, Guerra J, Pletz MW, Weis S (2023) Persistent humoral and CD4+ TH cell immunity after mild SARS-COV-2 infection-the CoNAN long-term study. Front Immunol 13, 1095129.

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Andreas N, Weis S, Kolanos S, Baumgart S, Kamradt T, Pletz MW (2022) Persistent T-cell reactivity in a seronegative patient after SARS-CoV-2 infection and one vaccination. Vaccines (Basel) 10(1), 114.

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Burgold-Voigt S, Müller E, Zopf D, Monecke S, Braun SD, Frankenfeld K, Kiehntopf M, Weis S, Schumacher T, Pletz MW, Ehricht R (2022) Development of a new antigen-based microarray platform for screening and detection of human IgG antibodies against SARS-CoV-2. Sci Rep 12(1), 8067.

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Hagel S, Bahrs C, Schumann R, Pletz M, Weis S (2022) Complicated and uncomplicated S. aureus bacteraemia: an international Delphi survey among infectious diseases experts on definitions and treatment. Clin Microbiol Infect 28(7), 1026.e7.

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Morales-Prieto DM, Murrieta-Coxca JM, Stojiljkovic M, Diezel C, Streicher PE, Henao-Restrepo JA, Röstel F, Lindner J, Witte OW, Weis S, Schmeer C, Marz M (2022) Small extracellular vesicles from peripheral blood of aged mice pass the blood-brain barrier and induce glial cell activation. Cells 11(4), 625.

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Pletz MW, Dürrwald R, Reiche J, Rose N, Scherag A, Weis S, CoNAN study group (2022) Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on influenza and RSV antibody titres in the community - a prospective cohort study in Neustadt Thuringia/Germany. Eur Respir J 60(5), 2200947.

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Ramos S, Ademolue TW, Jentho E, Wu Q, Guerra J, Martins R, Pires G, Weis S, Carlos AR, Mahú I, Seixas E, Duarte D, Rajas F, Cardoso S, Sousa AGG, Lilue J, Paixão T, Mithieux G, Nogueira F, Soares MP (2022) A hypometabolic defense strategy against malaria. Cell Metab 34(8), 1183-1200.e12.

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