Research area
Systemic sclerosis, fibrosis, interstitial lung disease in collagenoses.
Expertise: clinical trials, drug development strategies, biomarkers, RNA-omics, animal models, registry analysis, in vitro functional testing for fibrosis.
Career
2016 | Clinic Director of the Clinic for Rheumatology, University Hospital Zurich |
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2015-2017 | Visiting Professor University of Florence, Italy |
2015 | Visiting Professor Stanford University, USA |
2013 | Professor ad personam, University of Zurich |
2012 | Certificate of Advanced Studies in Healthcare Management, University of St. Gallen |
2012 | Visiting Professor University of Gothenburg, Sweden |
2009-2016 | Senior Physician and Director Scleroderma Program, Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital |
2006-2009 | Senior Physician, Clinic for Rheumatology, University Hospital Zurich |
2006 | Specialist FMH for Rheumatology |
2004/2005 | Specialist FMH for Internal Medicine |
2005 | Habilitation as Privatdozent for Rheumatology, University of Zurich |
2004-2006 | Resident, Department of Immunology and Rheumatology, University Hospital Zurich |
1998-2004 | Postdoctoral Researcher Center for Experimental Rheumatology, University Hospital Zurich |
1997 | Doctoral thesis at the University of Erlangen |
1989-1996 | Medical studies, University of Erlangen, Germany |
Most important memberships
- Walter Siegenthaler Society for Advances in Internal Medicine
- SGR, Swiss Society for Rheumatology
- Swiss Society for Pulmonary Hypertension
- American College of Rheumatology
- Hartmann-Müller Foundation
- Pfizer Research Award Foundation
- SCQM Foundation
- EUSTAR (European Scleroderma Trials and Research Group)
- Deputy of the University of Zurich in the Swiss Academy of Sciences
Research focus
- Systemic sclerosis
Publications
Publication listFurther
- Division Head for Traumatology, Dermatology, Rheumatology, Plastic Surgery and Emergency Medicine at the University Hospital Zurich
- Head of the Center for Experimental Rheumatology at the University Hospital Zurich