Dr. Leonard Knegendorf (born 1994) has been a Junior Group Leader at TWINCORE since 2024 and is a board-certified specialist in Microbiology, Virology and Infection Epidemiology. Working clinically at the Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hospital Epidemiology, Hannover Medical School, he operates at the interface of patient care and data-driven infection research.
He studied medicine in Hannover (medical license 2020) and conducted his doctoral research in parallel at TWINCORE in the lab of Prof. Eike Steinmann on hepatitis E virus replication and genotype-specific differences. He further obtained an M.Sc. in Biomedical Informatics and Data Science in 2023. His work focuses on data-driven analysis of bacterial infections. His publications address epidemiological risk factors and genomic analyses of hospital-associated pathogens, including targeted sequencing studies in defined patient populations such as bloodstream infections and intensive care settings, with a growing focus on integrating large-scale clinical and genomic data for data-driven, untargeted approaches.
Knegendorf L, Sommer A, Baier C, Weber R, Fischer M, Werner G, Ziesing S, Schlüter D
Raith J, Ruwisch J, Schupp J, Graalmann T, Drick N, Hoeper M, Prasse A, Fuge J, Ringshausen F, Knegendorf L, Rademacher J, Dettmer S, Seeliger B
Wißing M, Meister T, Nocke M, Gömer A, Masovic M, Knegendorf L, Brüggemann Y, Bader V, Siddharta A, Bock C, Ploss A, Kenney S, Winklhofer K, Behrendt P, Wedemeyer H, Steinmann E, Todt D
Burkard T, Proske N, Resner K, Collignon L, Knegendorf L, Friesland M, Verhoye L, Sayed I, Brüggemann Y, Nocke M, Behrendt P, Wedemeyer H, Meuleman P, Todt D, Steinmann E
Todt D, Friesland M, Moeller N, Praditya D, Kinast V, Brüggemann Y, Knegendorf L, Burkard T, Steinmann J, Burm R, Verhoye L, Wahid A, Meister T, Engelmann M, Pfankuche V, Puff C, Vondran F, Baumgärtner W, Meuleman P, Behrendt P, Steinmann E
Dr Leonard Knegendorf heads the ‘Data-driven clinical microbiology’ group.
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