Wolfgang Berdel

Wolfgang Berdel received his medical training at the Universities of Hamburg, Munich, and Freiburg, where he obtained his MD in 1979. He was trained in cell biology and immunology at the Max Planck Institute for Immunobiology in Freiburg, received training in Internal Medicine, Hematology and Oncology at the Technische Universitaet of Munich, was Visiting Professor in the Division of Hematology and Oncology at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia, USA (1986-1988) and Assoc. Professor at the Benjamin Franklin Hospital of the Free University Berlin until 1997. From 1997 – 2017 Dr. Berdel served as Professor of Medicine and Chairman of the Department for Medicine/Hematology and Oncology, Hemostaseology and Pneumology at the University of Muenster (WWU), Germany. He served as Vice-President for Research at the University between 2002 and 2006. Upon other academic functions Dr. Berdel served as chairman of the Phase 1/II Study Group of the German Cancer Society, as a member and section chairman of a Fachkollegium in the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), and for 5 years as a member of the National Drug Approval Board in the Bundesamt für Arzneimittel und Medizinprodukte (BfArM). He is currently chairman of the joined Ethical Board of the Physicians Chamber of Westfalia-Lippe and the WWU.