Jonas Schmidt-Chanasit
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Jonas Schmidt-Chanasit (born 25 March 1979) is a German virologist and Professor of Arbovirology at the University of Hamburg. Schmidt-Chanasit is also the Deputy Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Arbovirus and Haemorrhagic Fever Reference and Research at the
Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (Bernhard-Nocht-Institut für Tropenmedizin) (BNITM) in Hamburg is Germany's largest institution for tropical medicine, with a workforce of about 250 people in Hamburg. It is member of the Leibniz-A ...
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Early career

Schmidt-Chanasit was born in Pankow, Berlin. He earned his MD from Charité Medical School in 2006. After defending his thesis on "''Development and evaluation of serological assays for the detection of human infections by New World hantaviruses imported to Europe"'' he worked as a student at the Kasetsart University in Bangkok. From 2008 he began to work as a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Medical Virology of Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, where he gained his post-doctoral qualification (
habilitation Habilitation is the highest university degree, or the procedure by which it is achieved, in many European countries. The candidate fulfills a university's set criteria of excellence in research, teaching and further education, usually including a ...
) in virology, in 2010. Schmidt-Chanasit has been leading the ''WHO Collaborating Centre for Arbovirus and Haemorrhagic Fever Reference and Research'' at the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine in Hamburg since 2010. In 2018, Schmidt-Chanasit became Professor of Arbovirology at the University of Hamburg. The research groups led by Schmidt-Chanasit work on Emerging and Reemerging viruses (e.g. Ebola virus,
Borna virus ''Bornaviridae'' is a family of negative-strand RNA viruses in the order '' Mononegavirales''. Horses, sheep, cattle, rodents, birds, reptiles, and humans serve as natural hosts. Diseases associated with bornaviruses include Borna disease, a f ...
, Zika virus or
Usutu virus Usutu virus (USUV) is a flavivirus belonging to the Japanese encephalitis complex, which is an emerging zoonotic arbovirus of concern because of its pathogenicity to humans and its similarity in ecology with other emerging arboviruses such as Wes ...
). In this context, one main focus is on viruses that are transmitted by mosquitos. In particular, he investigates the interaction between arboviruses and their vectors. Furthermore, he also develop models to better predict arbovirus epidemics. Schmidt-Chanasit has identified several new viral pathogens and is author of more than 200 scientific papers, including journals like The New England Journal of Medicine and The Lancet. Schmidt-Chanasit is married, father of a son and a daughter and lives with his family in Berlin and Bangkok.


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