University training and degree

1995

Postdoctoral Habilitation (PhD Thesis)

1988

Medical License, Doctoral Thesis

1982-1988

Medical School, University of Ulm, and University of Miami, FL, USA

Advanced academic qualifications

1997-2000

Heisenberg-Scholarship for a scientific research, NIH, Bethesda, USA

1994-1997

Assistant Professor at Medical Clinic and Outpatient Clinic III,
University of Leipzig

Postgraduate professional career

Since 2015

Transcampus Dean, King’s College London, UK

Since 2012

Dean for Development and International Affairs, Medical Faculty at the Technische Universität Dresden

Since 2004

C4-Professor and director of the Dept. of internal Medicine, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus at the Technische Universität Dresden

2001-2004

C3-Professor and Vice-Chair of the Dept. of Endocrinology, Diabetology and Rheumatology, University of Düsseldorf

2000-2002

Scientific coordinator of NIH State-of-Science conference on clinically inapparent adrenal tumours

2000-2001

Acting Unit Chief at the Pediatric Endocrinology Section, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH, Bethesda, USA

Additional Information

Editorships:

Hormone and Metabolic Research
Journal of Molecular Endocrinology

Service on scientific advisory boards:

Cofounder of Innate Repair Ltd. UK
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Boehringer-Ingelheim Foundation
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of IFCAH, France

Awards:

Marius Tausk Award, Deutschen Gesellschaft für Endokrinologie, 1994
„Einfach genial Preis“ of MDR for MediROBO Project, 1995
Member of the Leopoldina – German National Academy of Sciences, 2010

Reviewer for

PNAS, Lancet, Diabetes, Diabetologia, Endocrinology, FASEB Journal, Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, New England Journal of Medicine, Cell and Tissue Researchm, European Journal of Endocrinology