Prof Dr Dr Luka Cicin-Sain

Born in Croatia, Luka Cicin-Sain studied medicine at the University of Rijeka, his hometown. In 1996, he received his M.D. After that he studied biomedicine and spent a year as a research fellow at the Lund university in Sweden. In 2001, he passed the Croatian state exam in human medicine in Zagreb.

While working as a physician he was fascinated with biology. Until 2004 he worked at the Max von Pettenkofer Institute for Hygiene and Medical Microbiology in Munich. In 2004, he finished his Master of Science in biomedicine at the University of Rijeka, followed by his Ph.D. in 2006.

After a five year stay as a postdoctoral fellow and subsequently a research assistant professor at the Vaccine and Gene Therapy Insitute of the Oregon Health and Science University in Portland, USA he came to HZI in 2010 to work as a young investigator, leading the junior research group "Immune senescence and Chronic Infections". Since July 2016, he headed the group "Immune Aging and Chronic Infections" (IMCI). Currently, he is leading the department "Viral Immunology" (VIRI). Since 2019, Cicin-Sain is Associate Professor at Hannover Medical School (MHH) and member of the Centre for Individualized Infection Medicine (CiiM), a joint venture of HZI and MHH.