Cornelius Knabbe

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Cornelius Knabbe is a German laboratory and transfusion medicine specialist . He is a university lecturer and director of the Institute for Laboratory and Transfusion Medicine at the Heart and Diabetes Center North Rhine-Westphalia in Bad Oeynhausen , a facility of the University Clinic of the Ruhr University Bochum .

Life

After studying medicine as a scholarship holder of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes at the University of Hamburg from 1976 to 1982 and obtaining his license to practice medicine , Cornelius Knabbe received his doctorate in 1983 in the Department of Clinical Chemistry II of the Second Medical Clinic at the University Hospital Eppendorf (UKE). Further training to become a specialist in laboratory medicine and a clinical chemist also took place there.

From 1984 to 1987, Knabbe devoted himself to research on molecular biology and transforming growth factors (TGF) at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center in Bethesda as part of a grant from the German Research Foundation . Until 1991 he was a research assistant / university assistant in the 2nd Medical Clinic and in the Department of Transfusion Medicine of the UKE, after which he worked as a senior physician at the Institute for Clinical Chemistry there.

Cornelius Knabbe completed his habilitation in 1990 and received the Venia legendi for clinical chemistry in the medical department of the University of Hamburg in 1991 . In 1995 he was appointed university professor. From 1998 to 2010 Knabbe was chief physician in the department for clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine at the Robert Bosch Hospital in Stuttgart before he was appointed director of the Institute for Laboratory and Transfusion Medicine at the Heart and Diabetes Center North Rhine-Westphalia.

Knabbe is a member of the German specialist societies for clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine as well as for endocrinology and is also a member of the international specialist societies for blood transfusion, endocrinology and cancer research. From 2007 to 2009 he was represented on the accreditation advisory board of the Federal Ministry of Economics / Technology, since 2010 chairman and since 2012 deputy chairman of the forensics and health advisory board of the accreditation board.

Since 2006 he has been a member of the “Quality Assurance of Medical Laboratory Examinations” advisory board of the German Medical Association . In 2014 he was appointed chairman of the scientific advisory board of the Reference Institute for Bioanalytics in Bonn. He fulfills various functions in the German National Academic Foundation and is an expert u. a. for the German Research Foundation , the Dutch Cancer Research Society and the Swiss Cancer League . His scientific focus is on molecular diagnostics and experimental and clinical cell biology .

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