TWiV Special: A shot of HepB with Stephan Urban

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🗓️ 22 April 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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From the 2024 International Hepatitis B virus meeting in Chicago IL, Rich Condit speaks with Stephan Urban about his career working on HBV and HDV, and his philanthropy. Host: Rich Condit Guest: Stephan Urban Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Support science education at MicrobeTV ASV 2025 Hepatitis delta: recent advances (Hepatology) Bulevirtide for HBV and HDV (Lancet Inf Dis) Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks! Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your virology questions and comments to [email protected] Content in this podcast should not be construed as medical advice.

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0:00.0	This week in Virology, the podcast about viruses, the kind that make you sick.
0:07.0	Hi, I'm Rich Condit from Microbb TV, and I'm here in Chicago at the International Hepatitis B-virus meeting, abbreviated HBV. And I'm here with Stefan Urban, who is a
0:25.2	professor at the University of Heidelberg. That's correct. And also an HBV researcher. And we're
0:32.8	going to talk about his life and work for the record. So, Stefan, welcome.
0:38.8	Thank you for having me.
0:40.2	I'm glad.
0:41.0	I'm glad we finally get a little time together.
0:43.2	We were actually at a restaurant last night that was very noisy.
0:47.7	And we tried to have a conversation, but we had a good meal.
0:51.1	All right.
0:51.4	We had a good meal.
0:52.1	That's true, yeah.
0:52.8	So I'm interested in your history, like the whole thing.
0:58.1	Where were you born?
0:59.5	How did you, you know, your career path and how you got into hepatitis B virus?
1:05.5	Okay, yeah.
1:06.0	Let me start from the beginning.
1:07.3	I think one of the, let's say, first thing that was very interesting for me in school was chemistry.
1:14.2	So I started as a chemist.
1:15.5	I studied chemistry and biochemistry.
1:18.3	And even before leaving school, I had a deep interest.
1:21.4	So I was having my own laboratory in the cellar of our house, yeah,
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