Christine Fast

Dr. Christine Fast is a Laboratory Head at the Institute of Novel and Emerging Infectious Diseases (INNT) of the Friedrich Loeffler Institute in Germany. She is a licensed veterinarian specialist in pathology with expertise in transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) and zoonotic diseases.

• Key affiliations: National Reference Laboratory (NRL) for TSEs
• Research focus: Prion diseases, chronic wasting disease (CWD), and wildlife-livestock-human disease ecology

Her work involves participation in major projects such as:

• ScIce: Scrapie in Island as a prion disease model
• TCWDE: Tackling Chronic Wasting Disease in Europe
• VetBioNet: Veterinary biocontainment facilities
• WiLiMan-ID: Wildlife and livestock disease interactions
• ISIDORe: Integrated infectious disease outbreak response

As a specialist in veterinary pathology, she contributes to advanced animal infectiology research and experimental platforms.