Sucharit Bhakdi | |
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Born | 1 November 1946 (age 74 years) |
Nationality | Thai-German |
Alma mater | |
Known for | epidemiology of COVID-19 Great Barrington Declaration |
Awards | Order of Merit of Rhineland-Palatinate, Aronson Prize |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Medicine/surgery, Epidemiology |
Sucharit Bhakdi (born Sucharit Punyaratabandhu, 1 November 1946, in Washington, D.C.) is a Thai-German specialist in microbiology.[1] He studied at the Universities of Bonn, Gießen, Mainz and Copenhagen, and at the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics in Freiburg. He is a retired Professor of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and from 1991 to 2012 was Head of the Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene there.[2]
Over his career, Bhakdi has produced scientific work across a breadth of fields such as immunology, bacteriology, virology, and parasitology, and has published over three hundred scientific articles in those areas. He has received numerous awards, including the Order of Merit of Rhineland-Palatinate.[3]
He has prominently raised concerns over scientific claims regarding the COVID-19 pandemic and many states 'Lockdown' responses to it. He is a signatory to the Great Barrington Declaration, an open letter dedicated to an alternative, risk-based approach of "Focused Protection" for people most at risk of the virus.[4][5]
Bhakdi is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the PANDA (Pandemics ~ Data & Analytics) organisation.[6] He is also a member of the 'Corona-Quartett', a weekly talk show on the Austrian TV station Servus TV. [7]
References
- ^ CURRICULUM VITAE aetf.academy.online.fr, accessed 11 October 2020
- ^ "Sucharit Bhakdi (Punyarataband) Lebenslauf" [curriculum vitae]. studylibde.com. Retrieved 11 October 2020.
- ^ "Sucharit Bhakdi MD". chelsea green. Retrieved 19 November 2020.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Lenzer, Jeanne (7 October 2020). "Covid-19: Group of UK and US experts argues for "focused protection" instead of lockdowns". British Medical Journal. British Medical Association. doi:10.1136/bmj.m3908. Retrieved 18 October 2020.
- ^ Sample, Ian (7 October 2020). "Why herd immunity strategy is regarded as fringe viewpoint". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 10 October 2020. Retrieved 10 October 2020.
- ^ "PANDA: Scientific Advisory Board". pandata19.org/scientific-advisory-board. Retrieved 8 November 2020.
- ^ "Corona quartet". www.servustv.com/videos/aa-2549xqckh2111/. Retrieved 21 October 2020.