Patrick Behrendt has been leading the Junior Research Group for Translational Virology as part of the Institute for Experimental Virology at TWINCORE in Hannover since 2019. From 2011 to 2019, he worked as a physician scientist at the Institute for Experimental Virology at TWINCORE. Since 2022, Patrick Behrendt has been a senior physician and head of the Ultrasound Unit in the Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Infectiology, and Endocrinology at Hannover Medical School, where he has also been working as a physician since 2010. In 2022, he specialized in General Internal Medicine. Patrick Behrendt completed his doctoral thesis from 2008 to 2010 under the supervision of Prof. Heike Kielstein at the Institute of Pathology at Hannover Medical School. From 2003 to 2009, he studied Human Medicine at Hannover Medical School.