Norbert Suttorp
Department of Internal Medicine, Charité, Humboldt University Medical Center, Berlin, Germany

Norbert Suttorp is Professor and Chair of the Departments of Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases and Intensive Care at Charité, Humboldt University Medical Center, Berlin, Germany. Prior to this, he was based at the Department of Internal Medicine, University of Giessen, Germany, where he was awarded a professorship in 1993, funded by the German Science Foundation. Professor Suttorp completed a medical degree at the University of Münster and Giessen, Germany, before becoming a post-doctoral research fellow at Stanford University Medical School, Palo Alto, California, USA.

Professor Suttorp is a member of the American Thoracic Society (ATS), the New York Academy of Sciences and the American Society for Microbiology (ASM). He is also a keen reviewer of several peer-reviewed journals, including the American Journal of Physiology, Infection and Immunity, the Journal of Clinical Investigation and the Journal of Immunology.

Professor Suttorp’s research interests include the treatment of sepsis and pneumonia, pathogen–host interactions and host cell signal transduction. To date, Professor Suttorp’s specialist research areas of internal medicine, infectious diseases, intensive care and pneumology have been the subject of over 80 prestigious peer-reviewed manuscripts that he has either authored or co-authored.