About
Dr. Ursula Ehmer is a senior physician and research group leader at the Department of Internal Medicine II, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technical University of Munich, where she has directed the liver transplantation program since 2017. She studied medicine at Hannover Medical School (1997-2004) and earned her doctorate summa cum laude on hepatic glucuronidation variability and UDP-glucuronosyltransferase polymorphisms, as well as a PhD in Molecular Medicine from the Hannover Biomedical Research School on the regulation of genetic variation. Following clinical training in gastroenterology and hepatology, she conducted postdoctoral research at Stanford University from 2009 to 2012 and completed her habilitation in internal medicine in 2018. Her research focuses on hepatocyte genetics, drug-metabolizing enzymes, cell proliferation control via the Hippo signaling pathway, and the genomics of liver cancer, and she has published extensively on UDP-glucuronosyltransferase regulation, mechanisms of liver disease, and translational cancer research. Her honors include the Ernest and Emilia Gallo Fellowship and a postdoctoral fellowship from the Mildred Scheel Foundation.