Christoph Lange


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Christoph Lange, PhD, MD

Professor, Research Center Borstel, Leibniz Lung Center, Germany

Prof. Lange is a pulmonologist and infectious diseases specialist. He is the Medical Director of the Research Center Borstel, Leibniz Lung Center, Professor of Respiratory Medicine & International Health at the University of Lübeck, and Head of the Clinical Tuberculosis Unit at the German Centre for Infection Research. He also serves on the Board of Directors of The Union, the world’s oldest and largest professional society for tuberculosis and other lung diseases.

Prof. Lange’s broad research interests include the epidemiology, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of tuberculosis, as well as the implementation of research findings into clinical practice. He is the founding Chairman of the Tuberculosis Network European Trials Group (TBNET).

He is one of the clinical leads of the UNITE4TB project, an EU-funded international clinical trials platform for the evaluation of novel anti-tuberculosis medicines operating in Europe, Africa, Asia, and South America.