He joined the Department of Dermatology, University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, MI, USA for a research fellowship on molecular biology, and the Department of Dermatology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA as well as the Department of Dermatology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA for clinical research before returning as faculty at the Department of Dermatology, Freie Universitaet Berlin.
He currently serves as President of the European Hidradenitis Suppurativa Foundation (EHSF) e.V., Honorary President of the European Society of Preventive, Regenerative and Anti-Aging Medicine (ESAAM) and Board member of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology (EADV) and the International Society on Behçet’s Disease.
He was elected Prof. honoraire of the University of Franche-Comté, Besançon, France, Dr. h.c. of the National Kapodistria University of Athens and Visiting Professor of the Shanghai Jiao Tong Medical University, China.
He is honorary member of the French, the Hungarian and the Lithuanian Dermatological Societies.
He has an extensive publication record on skin endocrinology, the pilosebaceous unit and its diseases, skin stem cells, molecular ageing, cryosurgery and rare skin diseases.
He has received numerous awards, including the Oskar Gans Prize, the EADV Research Fellowship, the Felix Wankel Animal Protection Research Prize, the Paul Gerson Unna Prize and the Springer Prize for Dermatology.
His Departments have been decorated with the title « Germany land of ideas – 2009 place of excellence » for the work on skin stem cells.
Legal notice – Cookies © LPG SYSTEMS 2023
