Melanie Brinkmann

[1][2][3][4][5] Melanie Margarete Brinkmann was born at Neustadt am Rübenberge, a town near Hanover, and attended school in nearby Garbsen.

[1] Following a formal 'very good' (sehr gut) commendation in recognition of her exam grades Brinkmann moved on again, this time to Berlin, still studying biology.

[7] In July 2010 Brinkmann took on the leadership of the "Immunotherapy Successor Group" ("Nachwuchsgruppe: Virale Immunmodulation") at the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) in Braunschweig.

[9] Since 2010 she has been co-leader of the DFG project on Modulation of the Immune Response through the Gammaherpesvirinae-linked Kaposi's sarcoma, associated with the Herpesviridae and the Murines Herpesvirus 68 (BO3).

In May 2020 she was co-organiser and a co-signatory, with Christian Drosten of the Charité, of an open letter from 100 doctors, nurses and health experts calling for stronger action to be taken by providers of media platforms/services against pandemic misinformation.