Academic education and scientific degrees

2015

Postdoctoral Habilitation (PhD Thesis), Medical Faculty of the Technische Universität Dresden, Germany

2012

Board Certification Internal Medicine, Specialist in Endocrinology and Diabetes

2005

Doctoral Thesis (Doctor Medicinae), Topic: Influence of a selective Endothelin-A receptorantagonist on microcirculation and morphology in pancreas transplantation and liver ischemia in a pig model, (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. med. Helmut Witzigmann, Dept. of Surgery, University of Leipzig, Germany), Grade: Summa cum laude

2004

Medical Licence

1997 - 2004

Medical School at the University of Leipzig, Germany and the University of Bern, Switzerland

Academic and research positions

Since 2013

Senior physician at the Medical Clinic III, Dept. of Endocrinology and Diabetes, University of Dresden, Germany

Since 2008

Head of the Human Islet Transplantation Program Dresden, Germany

2010

Hospitation: Diabetes Research Institute, University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, USA (Prof. Camillo Ricordi)

2009

Hospitation: Chirurgie Viscérale et Transplantation, Hộpitaux Universitaires de Genève, Switzerland (Prof. Thierry Berney)

Since 2006

Resident and Fellow at the Medical Clinic III of the University of Dresden, Germany (Chair: Prof. Dr. med. S. Bornstein)

2004 - 2006

Research Fellow at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA (Chair: Prof. H.W. Sollinger, Supervisor: Prof. L.A. Fernandez)

2004 - 2006

Resident at the Dept. of Surgery, Div. of Transplantation of the University of Leipzig, Germany (Chair: Prof. Dr. med. J. Hauss)

Additional information

Memberships

Deutsche Diabetes Gesellschaft (DDG)
Deutsche Transplantationsgesellschaft (DTG)
International Pancreas & Islet Transplant Association (IPITA)
European Pancreas & Islet Transplant Association (EPITA)
The Transplantation Society (TTS)
Artificial Insulin Delivery and Pancreas and Islet Transplantation
Study Group of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (AIDPIT, ESOT)
Member of the working group „Revision of guidelines for pancreas and islet allocation“
Standing commission on organ transplantation of the National German Medical Association
Councillor of the International Pancreas and Islet Transplantation Association (IPITA) Council

Awards

Doctoral Thesis Award of the University of Leipzig, 2005
Derek Gray Fellowship Award, International Pancreas and Islet Transplantation Association (IPITA), 2009
Research Award of the German Transplant Association (DTG), 2011
Ernst-Friedrich-Pfeiffer-Award oft he German Diabetes Assoziation (DDG), 2014
Rudolf Pichlmayr Preis der Deutschen Tansplantationsgesellschaft, 2015
IDF Europe Prize in Diabetes, Young Researcher, 2015

Reviewer for

American Journal of Transplantation, Cell Transplantation, Diabetes, PLoS One, Transplantation, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Stiftung Rheinland Pfalz, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF)

Lecturer in

Master Course RegBioMed, DFG-Center for Regenerative Therapies Dresden, “Organ Systems and Disease“, Basic Lectures International ME-PhD program “Molecular Endocrinology”, Fortbildungskurs „Klinische Diabetologie“ der Deutschen Diabetes-Gesellschaft, Basic Lectures Internal Medicine/Endocrinology, Medical Faculty at the Technische Universität Dresden

Patents

Joint Invention: Dr. Andrew Schally, Norman Block (University of Miami) und Dr. Stefan Bornstein, Dr. Barbara Ludwig (Universität Dresden)
Titel: „Agonists of Growth Hormone Releasing Hormone as Effectors for Survival and Proliferation of Pancreatic Islets“
International Patent Application number: PCT/US2011/039,162