Affiliation: Royal Veterinary College, Centre for Vaccinology and Regenerative Medicine, United Kingdom

Dr. Dirk Werling studied Veterinary Medicine at the Veterinary University Hannover. He obtained a PhD in Veterinary Virology from the University of Zurich, having worked at the Institute of Animal Sciences at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich. After a PhD in Immunology at the University of London, he joined ETH Zurich as Assistant Professor, before joining the Institute of Veterinary Virology (University of Berne, CH). Since 2003, he works at the Royal Veterinary College (since 2007 as Chair and Full Professor). His current research interests include host-pathogen interaction, specifically with regards to the innate immune system, and developing new vaccine approaches by using state-of-the-art organ cultures.