Hermann Wagner

Hermann Wagner (born 1941) is a German microbiologist and immunologist who was dean of the Medical Faculty of the Technical University of Munich and is one of Europe's most cited immunologists, with over 370 published works. He took his medical degree at the University of Tübingen in 1967 and a PhD in human biology at the University of Melbourne in 1973, then researched T cell mediated immune responses at the University of Mainz. He became full professor and head of the Institute of Microbiology at the University of Ulm in 1983 and moved in 1989 to the Technical University of Munich, where he headed the Institute of Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Hygiene until 2008. His research concerns protective immunity against pathogens, including the immunobiology of bacterial superantigens and the Toll-like receptors, where he was among the first to show that bacterial and viral DNA activates innate immune cells through TLR9.