Peter Zipfel Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection BiologyGermany

Peter F. Zipfel, is University-Professor at Friedrich Schiller University, Jena and Department Head at the Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology - e in Jena Germany. His research focuses on complement in health and disease, the role of the complement system in HUS and C3 Glomerulopathy, and as target for human pathogenic microbes. Dr. Zipfel has a deep interest in complement factor H, and in Factor H related proteins. Dr. Zipfel received his PhD from the University of Bremen. He was a postdoctoral fellow in the Laboratory for Immunoregulation, National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland USA headed by Dr. Anthony Fauci. Dr. Zipfel was then Group -eader at Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine Hamburg and Professor at the University of Hamburg. He has organized in 2013 the 14th European Meeting on Complement in Human Diseases and the 28th International Complement workshop in the year 2021.