About
Prof. Dr. med. Dr. phil. Tom Lüdde has been Director of the Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Infectious Diseases at University Hospital Düsseldorf (UKD) since August 1, 2020, succeeding Prof. Dr. Dieter Häussinger. Career: Lüdde studied medicine from 1994 to 2001 at Hannover Medical School (MHH) and completed his doctorate with top honors in 2002 on liver regeneration (MHH doctoral prize). After a research stay at the University of North Carolina (2000) and a second doctorate (Dr. phil., summa cum laude, 2004), he was a resident in Hannover from 2002 to 2004, completed a postdoc at EMBL and the University of Cologne from 2005 to 2007, and was a resident at University Hospital Aachen from 2007 to 2010. He completed his habilitation in 2009 (RWTH Aachen habilitation prize) and became a tenured W3 professor in Aachen in 2014. Research: Lüdde's research focuses on personalized treatment of gastrointestinal tumors using novel biomarkers and artificial intelligence, as well as the effects of obesity and malnutrition on liver disease. He has received the Ernst Jung Career Award and the Thannhauser Prize.