Steffen Mueller is an American

United States

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 virologist and synthetic biologist. He is an Assistant Professor at Stony Brook University in New York

New York

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Mueller received his Ph.D.

Ph.D.

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 in molecular microbiology from Stony Brook University in 2002 in the laboratory of Eckard Wimmer

Eckard Wimmer

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Mueller is a co-developer of the platform technology dubbed SAVE (Synthetic Attenuated Virus Engineering), a method to produce weakened synthetic viruses that are permanently prevented from regaining virulence

Virulence

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The method may hold the key to a new class of antiviral, so-called live, or attenuated vaccines.

External links

• Mueller Lab, at Stony Brook