Markus Löffler (biometrician)
Markus Löffler (born October 28, 1954 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a German physician, physicist and biostatistician and director of the Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology (IMISE) at the Medical Faculty of Leipzig University .
Life
After graduating from high school in 1973, Markus Löffler studied human medicine at the University of Cologne . In 1980 he passed the medical examination, followed by the license to practice medicine and in 1983 the doctorate to Dr. med. at the University of Cologne. While still studying human medicine, Markus Löffler began a double degree in physics in 1976 and completed it in 1982 with the main diploma examination.
In 1990 he was Medical Documentation, Statistics and Biomathematics in professional habilitation . He spent a sabbatical year in the Statistics Department at Reading University , England , in 1993 . In 1994 he was appointed to a C4 professorship and became director of IMISE.
Markus Löffler is married and has two children.
Scientific work
- Member of German and international research networks (gliomas, malignant lymphomas, colon cancer, breast cancer, sepsis, heart failure)
- Scientific Director of the Coordination Center for Clinical Studies in Leipzig (ZKS)
- Scientific Director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Bioinformatics (IZBI)
- Director of the Leipzig Research Center for Civilization Diseases (LIFE)
- Board of the IFB Obesity
- Head of the long-term health study National Cohort and head of the Leipzig part of the study
- Board member and head of the medical informatics initiative SMITH
Research priorities
- Biometrics of interventional clinical studies and cohort studies
- Cancer epidemiology
- Epidemiology of the diseases of civilization
- Bioinformatics
- High-dimensional data analysis
- Computer-based modeling of stem cells and tissue organization
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology (IMISE) at the University of Leipzig
- ↑ Homepage on IMISE
- ^ Center for Clinical Studies Leipzig
- ↑ Interdisciplinary Center for Bioinformatics (IZBI) at the University of Leipzig
- ^ Leipzig Research Center for Civilization Diseases
- ↑ Integrated Research and Treatment Center for Adiposity Diseases Leipzig
- ↑ Press release of the Leipzig University Hospital ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Löffler, Markus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German biostatistician and systems biologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 28, 1954 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Freiburg in Breisgau |