Centre for Biological Security 1, Robert Koch-Institut, Berlin, Germany
Biography
Dr. Andreas Nitsche is a virologist who received his PhD from the Free University of Berlin in 2001. Today he is head of the Centre for Biological Security Highly Pathogenic Viruses of the Robert Koch Institute, head of the German Reference Laboratory for Poxviruses and head of the RKI Core Facility for DNA Sequencing. He has published more than 80 papers in renowned journals with a focus on molecular diagnostics and poxviruses.