Georg Lauer studied medicine at the universities of Tübingen, Hamburg and Bochum in Germany. He trained in internal medicine at the university hospital in Bochum, focusing on viral hepatitis, before joining the Partners AIDS Research Center at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School (now the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard) for a post doctoral fellowship in HCV immunology with Dr. Bruce Walker. Subsequently he became a faculty member at MGH and HMS, where he is now Associate Professor of Medicine in the Gastrointestinal Unit. His research focuses on adaptive immunity in acute and chronic HCV and HBV infection, with a special focus on CD4 and CD8 T cells and intrahepatic immunity. Beyond the aim to inform the design of prophylactic and therapeutic vaccines and immunotherapies for HBV and HCV, he is mostly interested in understanding broadly applicable correlates of protective immunity in humans and mechanisms employed by viruses to circumvent the host immune response and establish chronic infection.