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Over his career, Bhakdi has produced scientific work in fields such as ] and ], and has published multiple scientific articles in these areas. Awards he has received include the ].<ref name=OMRP>{{Cite web|title=Sucharit Bhakdi MD|url=https://www.chelseagreen.com/writer/sucharit-bhakdi-md/|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=19 November 2020|website=chelsea green}}</ref>
Over his career, Bhakdi has produced scientific work in fields such as ] and ], and has published multiple scientific articles in these areas. Awards he has received include the ].<ref name=OMRP>{{Cite web|title=Sucharit Bhakdi MD|url=https://www.chelseagreen.com/writer/sucharit-bhakdi-md/|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=19 November 2020|website=chelsea green}}</ref>
During the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, Bhakdi started a ] channel proposing that the number of deaths stemming from ] infection had been overstated.
During the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, Bhakdi started a ] channel proposing that the number of deaths stemming from ] infection had been overstated. Writing for '']'', Tyson Barker described Bhakdi as a prominent example from a "crop of debunked but credentialed so-called experts minting conspiracy theories and undermining fact-based information".<ref name=barker/> The German non-profit ] fact-checked one of Bhakdi's Youtube videos, and found a number of problematic claims, including the claim that any ] would be "pointless", and that the virus posed no more threat than ].<ref name=correct>{{cite web |website=] |author=Kathrin Wesolowski |language=de |title=Impfung gegen Covid-19 "sinnlos"? Sucharit Bhakdi stellt unbelegte Behauptungen auf |date=19 June 2020 |url=https://correctiv.org/faktencheck/2020/06/19/impfung-gegen-covid-19-sinnlos-sucharit-bhakdi-stellt-unbelegte-behauptungen-auf/ |type=Fact check}}</ref>
Medicine/surgery, bacteriology and atherosclerosis
Sucharit Bhakdi (born Sucharit Punyaratabandhu, 1 November 1946, in Washington, D.C.) is a retired Thai-German microbiologist, known for spreading misinformation about the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. He studied at the Universities of Bonn, Gießen, Mainz and Copenhagen, and at the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics in Freiburg. He was professor of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and from 1991 to 2012 was head of the Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene there.
During the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, Bhakdi started a Youtube channel proposing that the number of deaths stemming from SARS-CoV-2 infection had been overstated.
2001 Aronson Prize for „wegweisende Arbeiten auf dem Gebiet des Komplementsystems und bakterieller Toxine“ (tr. "pioneering work in the field of the complement system and bacterial toxins")
2005 H. W. Hauss Award
2005 Verdienstorden des Landes Rheinland-Pfalz
2009 Rudolf-Schönheimer Medal of the Deutschen Gesellschaft für Arterioskleroseforschung
