Otmar Wiestler

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Otmar Wiestler (September 2019)
Conversation between Holger Klein and Otmar Wiestler on the occasion of his assumption as President of the Helmholtz Association.

Otmar Dieter Wiestler (born November 6, 1956 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a German physician, professor at Heidelberg University and President of the Helmholtz Association since September 2015 . Before that, Wiestler had been chairman of the board of the German Cancer Research Center since 2004 .

Career

From 1975 to 1981 Wiestler studied at the University of Freiburg . He received his license to practice medicine in 1981. He then worked until 1984 as an assistant doctor in the Neuropathology Department at the University of Freiburg, under the direction of Paul Kleihues and Benedikt Volk . In 1984 he also received his doctorate summa cum laude in Freiburg . For three years he was a postdoc at the University of California at San Diego in the field of pathology with Gernot Walter . From 1987 to 1992 he was initially an assistant doctor and later a senior physician in the neuropathology department at the Institute for Pathology at the University Hospital Zurich with Paul Kleihues. In 1989 he headed the department ad interim . In 1990 he was in Zurich for the Department of Pathology habilitation . From 1992 to 2003 he held a chair for neuropathology (C4) at the University Hospital Bonn and was director of the Institute for Neuropathology.

From 2002 to 2003, Wiestler was also the medical director of LIFE & BRAIN GmbH in Bonn. On January 1, 2004, he succeeded Harald zur Hausen as Chairman and Scientific Member of the Foundation Board of the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) in Heidelberg . He held this office until August 31, 2015.

He has been President of the Helmholtz Association since September 1, 2015. In 2019 he was re-elected for a second term until 2025.

His personal commitment to stem cell research in Germany made him known to a wider public.

Functions in committees

Otmar Wiestler is or was u. a. active in various functions and committees:

  • 1998–1999: President of the German Society for Neuropathology and Neuroanatomy eV
  • 2000–2003: Chairman of the Technical Committee for Theoretical Medicine of the German Research Foundation
  • since 2001: Member of the Leopoldina
  • since 2004: Chairman of the Advisory Board and member of the Executive Board of Deutsche Krebshilfe
  • since 2005: Member of the Board of Trustees of the non-profit Hertie Foundation
  • 2007–2012: Vice President for Health of the Helmholtz Association
  • since 2014: Member of the Supervisory Board of Bayer AG
  • since 2015: Member of the Board of Trustees of the German Cancer Aid
  • since 2015: President of the Helmholtz Association
  • since 2015: Chairman of the University Council of the Technical University of Munich

Awards

On April 8, 2005, Wiestler received the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany on the ribbon .

On October 20, 2012, Wiestler was awarded an honorary doctorate (Doctor honoris causa, Dr. hc) in the field of medicine by the University of Tübingen , on October 22, 2014 that of the Medical Faculty of the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich , and on December 9, 2016 by the University of Duisburg-Essen , in May 2017 the Julius-Maximilians-University of Würzburg .

Publications

Wiestler has made several hundred publications in mainly clinical-neuropathological journals. He is on the editorial board of various specialist journals.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Resonator Podcast of the Helmholtz Association : Helmholtz President Otmar Wiestler (episode 68, August 31, 2015)
  2. ^ A b c Otmar D. Wiestler: Combination of excellent research and cancer medicine . BioPro Baden-Württemberg GmbH. November 12, 2012. Retrieved October 1, 2014.
  3. ↑ Prof. Dr. Otmar D. Wiestler (CV) . University of Heidelberg. Archived from the original on June 11, 2007. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved October 1, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / translational-oncology.de
  4. ^ Farewell to DKFZ board member Otmar Wiestler (accessed November 30, 2015)
  5. ↑ DKFZ board member Otmar D. Wiestler elected the new Helmholtz President . DKFZ. Retrieved November 20, 2014.
  6. ↑ Member entry by Prof. Dr. Otmar D. Wiestler (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on July 20, 2016.
  7. ↑ German Cancer Aid website, composition of the Board of Trustees, accessed on December 19, 2015
  8. ↑ Prof. Dr. Otmar D. Wiestler . labor & more. Retrieved October 1, 2014.
  9. ↑ Honorary doctorate for Prof. Otmar Wiestler. Press release from October 23, 2014 at the Science Information Service (idw-online.de).
  10. ↑ Beate Kostka MA: Honorary doctorate for Prof. Dr. Dr. Otmar D. Wiestler. University of Duisburg-Essen, press release from December 5, 2016 from the Science Information Service (idw-online.de), accessed on December 5, 2016.
  11. ^ Robert Emmerich: Honorary doctorate for Otmar D. Wiestler. Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, press release from June 6, 2017 at the Informationsdienst Wissenschaft (idw-online.de), accessed on June 6, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Wiestler, Otmar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wiestler, Otmar D.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau