Christoph Sarrazin is Professor of Medicine at J.W. Goethe-University Hospital Frankfurt, Germany. He trained at the Medical Schools in Bonn and Würzburg and graduated in Medicine at Julius-Maximilians University, Würzburg, Germany in 1994. He served as a postdoctoral fellow with specialisation in Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology and Hepatology at J.W. Goethe-University Hospital from 1994 to 2002 including a Research Scholarships at the Scientific Research Institute "Georg-Speyer-Haus", Frankfurt. He then served as Assistant Professor of Medicine in April 2002 at J.W. Goethe-University Frankfurt.

In July 2002, Christoph Sarrazin moved to Saarland University Hospital, Homburg, Germany, and the Department of Gastroenterology/Hepatology and Endocrinology and in 2007 he became an Associate Professor. Also in 2007 he moved back to J.W. Goethe-University Hospital in Frankfurt as Associate Director of the Department of Internal Medicine 1 (Director Prof. Dr. S. Zeuzem). Dr. Sarrazin took over his current position as Professor of Medicine at J.W. Goethe-University Hospital in Frankfurt earlier this year.

Christoph Sarrazin has been funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, the European Union and the Network of Competence on Viral Hepatitis (Hep-Net). For more than 10 years, Christoph Sarrazin has worked on basic and clinical aspects of hepatitis virus infections. He participated in numerous national and international phase I-III studies in chronic viral hepatitis. Dr. Sarrazin has more than 100 publications on basic research and clinical aspects of chronic liver diseases as well as evaluation of HCV and HBV molecular assays. His main interests in basis research are viral determinants of resistance to treatment of viral hepatitis with interferon, ribavirin and direct antiviral drugs.

J. W. Goethe-University Hospital Frankfurt am Main
Associate Director and Professor of Medicine
Medizinische Klinik 1, Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Frankfurt am Main, Germany