University training and degree

2012

Board Certification Internal Medicine, Specialist in Endocrinology and Diabetes

2004

Medical Licence

1997-2004

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

Advanced academic qualifications

2015

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

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,

Postgraduate professional career

Since 2018

W2-Professor for Islet Transplantation in Diabetes, University of Dresden

Since 2013

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

Since 2008

Head of the Human Islet Transplantation Program Dresden

2010

Hospitation: Diabetes Research Institute, University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine (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 (Chair: Prof. Dr. med. S. Bornstein)

2004 - 2006

Postdoctoral researcher, 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), 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 Award of the German Transplantation Society, 2015
International Diabetes Federation (IDF) Europe Prize in Diabetes, 2015
Research Award of the German Transplant Association (DTG), 2016

Reviewer for

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

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