Leena Bruckner-Tuderman

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Leena Kaarina Bruckner-Tuderman (born September 1, 1952 in Oulu , Finland) is a Finnish-German dermatologist and university professor. She became known since 2003 as the Medical Director of the University Dermatology Clinic in Freiburg and through her election as Vice President of the DFG in July 2012.

Life

Bruckner-Tuderman studied medicine at the University of Oulu , Finland, from 1971 to 1976 , and received her state-academic recognition as a doctor in 1976. Your Dr. med. reached it a year later. As a post-doctoral fellow, instructor and assistant professor, she spent three years until 1980 in the Department of Biochemistry at the Rutgers Medical School and another three years until 1983 in the Department of Structural Biology at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel . She held positions as assistant and later senior physician at the dermatological clinic at Zurich University Hospital from 1984 to 1993. She did her habilitation in 1989 and has since been a private lecturer in dermatology and venereology at the University of Zurich .

From 1990 to 1994 she received a SCORE grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation for her research . Professionally, from 1993 to 2002, she switched to the University Dermatology Clinic in Münster as a senior physician. From 1994 to 1999 she was a Heisenberg fellow of the German Research Foundation.

In 1994 she was recognized as a specialist in skin and venereal diseases at the Westphalia-Lippe Medical Association . Her curriculum vitae at the DFG shows a rehabilitation that was undertaken at the University of Münster in the same year , without adding any further details. Apparently, formal requirements were met in order to appoint her as associate professor for dermatology and venereology at the University of Münster in 1996. For a few months she was visiting professor at Harvard Medical School .

In 1998 she did not accept a call to the C4 professorship in dermatology and venereology at the Karolinska Institute , Stockholm. Four years later, she was appointed to the chair for skin and venereal diseases at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg . Since February 2003 she has been C4 professor and medical director of the University Dermatology Clinic in Freiburg. In 2005 she turned down a professorship for dermatology and venereology at the University Hospital Zurich. She has also been the director of the Lifenet School since 2010 .

In addition to her areas of responsibility in research, teaching and clinical practice, Bruckner-Tuderman is a member of several professional and specialist societies, including the German Dermatological Society and the European Society for Dermatological Research . At Freiburg University she was Vice Dean for Strategy and Development Issues at the Medical Faculty. Between 2004 and 2011 she was active in the DFG Medical Review Board, Section “Genetic and Metabolic Basics of Human Diseases”. She was involved as a coordinator and co-initiator in other special research areas and priority programs of the DFG. So it happened that on July 4, 2012, she was elected to the executive committee of the research organization as its vice-president by the general assembly of the German Research Foundation in Dortmund. This office expired in 2019. On the occasion of her departure, the Senate Commission for Fundamental Questions in Clinical Research of the DFG organized a symposium “Focus on Research in University Medicine - Positioning and Perspectives”.

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Individual evidence

  1. a b c d Curriculum Vitae Bruckner-Tudermans on the DFG website
  2. a b Prof. Dr. Bruckner-Tuderman elected Vice President of the DFG
  3. Report on the symposium "Focus on Research in University Medicine - Determining the Position and Perspectives", accessed on October 18, 2019
  4. Member entry by Prof. Dr. Leena K. Bruckner-Tuderman (with picture) at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on June 7, 2016.
  5. ^ Köhler Prize to Freiburg dermatologist . In: Der Tagesspiegel of March 3, 2009, accessed August 22, 2012.
  6. ^ Members of the HAdW since it was founded in 1909. Leena Kaarina Bruckner-Tuderman. Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, accessed on July 19, 2016 .