Jörg Vogel (born 1 April 1967 in

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, Germany) is a German scientist in the field of RNA biology and microbiology. He holds a position as full professor, chairs the Institute for Molecular Infection Biology (IMIB) at the

University of Würzburg The Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg (also referred to as the University of Würzburg, in German ''Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg'') is a public research university in Würzburg, Germany. The University of Würzburg is one of ...

, Germany, and is a founding Helmholtz-Institute director. Vogel studied biochemistry at the

Humboldt University of Berlin Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (german: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, abbreviated HU Berlin) is a German public research university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin. It was established by Frederick William III on the initiative o ...

and the

Imperial College London Imperial College London (legally Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine) is a public research university in London, United Kingdom. Its history began with Prince Albert, consort of Queen Victoria, who developed his vision for a cu ...

. After his PhD work (1996–1999) he performed postdoctoral research at the Uppsala University, Sweden and was an EMBO fellow at the Hebrew University Jerusalem, Israel. From 2004 to 2009 he was a group leader at the

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. Since 2009 he is a full professor at the IMIB and head of the institute as successor to

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. Furthermore, he is founding director of the Helmholtz-Institute for RNA-based Infection Research (HIRI) in Würzburg that was established in 2017. Vogel's current activities cover the fields of small regulatory RNAs in bacteria, RNA sequencing, RNA localization as well as microRNAs and long non-coding RNAs in infected eukaryotic hosts. Jörg Vogel has contributed to over 200 research publications including many articles in high impact journals like

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and

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. Among other achievements he pioneered the application of

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for the analysis of the bacterial transcription,

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RNA maturation and host-pathogen interactions. Jörg Vogel received the VAAM Research award (2010) and the DGHM Senior Scientist Award (2011). In 2011 he was honored for his outstanding research and became an

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member. In 2013 Vogel was elected to the

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and the

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included Jörg Vogel in the list of 2015 Highly Cited Researchers. Starting from January 2016 to January 2019 he is a

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at the

in the Division of Infectious Diseases. Furthermore, Vogel was one of the

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize The Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize (german: link=no, Förderpreis für deutsche Wissenschaftler im Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Programm der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft), in short Leibniz Prize, is awarded by the German Research Foundation to ...

winners 2017. He has been announced as president of the

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(EAM) from 1 January 2021.

References

External links

Website of the IMIB

List of Jörg Vogel's publications
* Video of an interview with Jörg Vogel and the Senior Editor of the EMBO Journal, Karin Dumstrei �
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Vogel, Jorg Members of the European Molecular Biology Organization Living people 21st-century German biologists 1967 births People from Cottbus Humboldt University of Berlin alumni Alumni of Imperial College London Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize winners