Elke Muhlberger

Associate Professor of Microbiology, School of Medicine

Elke Mühlberger is a renowned expert on the Ebola and Marburg viruses and came to BU from the University of Marburg in Germany, where she had extensive experience with the type of biosafety level 4 (BSL-4) pathogens. As associate director of the NEIDL’s Biomolecular Production Core Laboratory, Mühlberger oversees the day-to-day administrative and research activities of a lab specializing in infectious virology research with a focus on how viruses spread and the molecular biology of infectious viruses.