Share Michael Boeckh

Education

Freie Universitat Berlin, 1988, PhD (Medicine)
Freie Universitat Berlin, 1985, MD

Research Interests

• Cytomegalovirus: immune reconstitution, virus-host interactions, diagnostic, mechanisms of primary CMV infection via blood and stem cell products, impact in immunocompetent subjects with acute lung injury, prevention in transplant recipients
• Respiratory virus infections in immunocompromised hosts: biomarkers, molecular diagnostics, disease associations, pathogenesis, immune response, treatment, prevention
• Genetic basis of infection complications in transplant recipients: whole genome studies and gene expression studies
• Infections in the immunocompromised host: disease manifestations, risk factors, and outcome studies

 Clinical Expertise

• Infections in the immunocompromised host, especially diagnosis, prevention and treatment of CMV, VZV, BK virus, adenovirus, and respiratory virus infections

Teaching and Mentoring Interests

• Infections in the immunocompromised host: biomarker, outcome research
• Genetic basis of infectious complications

Current Studies

• CMV prevention in acute lung injury (randomized trial)
• Infection in HCT recipients (observational studies)
• Phase III trial of G-CSF stimulated granulocyte transfusions for the treatment of serious infections (randomized trial)