Medical training

• Study of Medicine at the Medical Faculty of Technical University of Dresden (- 1996)

Academic development

• MD („summa cum laude“) at the Medical Faculty of Technical University of Dresden (1997)
• Postdoc supported by the Humboldt Foundation (Feodor Lynen Project) at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, USA (2001 – 2002)
• Habilitation („Privatdozent“) (2006)
• Appointment as Professor of Translational Hematology at the Medical Faculty of Technical University of Dresden (2012 – 2018)
• Appointment as Professor of Hematology at the University of Leipzig (2018 – )

Medical leadership positions

• Senior physician and Head of Hematology outpatient department, Medical Clinic and Policlinic I, University Hospital “Carl Gustav Carus” at the Technical University of Dresden (2005)
• Head of the Hematology section, University Hospital “Carl Gustav Carus” at the Technical University of Dresden (2014 – 2018)
• Chairman of the Medical Ethics Committee of the Technical University of Dresden (2014 – 2018)
• Head of Medical Clinic and Policlinic of Hematology, Cell Therapy and Hemostaseoloy at the University Hospital in Leipzig (2018 -)

Further scientific activities

• Speaker of German MDS Study Group
• Member of the International MDS Foundation’s Medical & Scientific Advisory Board
• Chairman of the European Myelodysplastic Syndromes Cooperative Group (EMSCO)
• Chairman EHA MDS working party (SWG)
• Board Member of the SAL study group
• Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Life Science and Medicine at King’s College London, UK
• EuroBloodNet coordinator (myeloid malignancies)
• Section Editor Leukemia
• Editorial Board Journal of Clinical Oncology

 Honors

• Chugai Science Award (2006)
• Best abstract, European Leukemia Net meeting (2010)
• 2012 DGHO Poster Award
• Van Bekkum Award of the EBMT in the name of the German MDS Study Group (2019)