About
Director of the Department of Gastroenterology, Endocrinology, Metabolism and Clinical Infectious Diseases at University Hospital Gießen and Marburg (UKGM), Marburg site, since 2006 (W3 professorship). Research assistant at the University of Marburg from 1988, DFG research fellowships in human genetics and at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund London (1989–1991), specialty training in internal medicine/gastroenterology at Ulm University Hospital under Prof. Adler from 1991, board certified 1996, habilitation (venia legendi) 1997, DFG Heisenberg fellow 1998–2001, C3 professorship at the University of Ulm 2001. No in-house liver transplant program at the Marburg site (UKGM transplant center). Research focus: molecular genetics, gastrointestinal oncology and diabetology.