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Prof. Dr. med. Knut Schäkel
Chief Senior Physician
(Dermatology clinic)
Chief Senior Physician
(Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Entzündungsmedizin Heidelberg (IZEH))
Medical Director
(Allergieambulanz)
Medical Director
(Studienambulanz)
Research Group Leader
(AG Prof. Dr. med. K. Schäkel)
Project Management
(SFB 938)
Medical Director
(Neurodermitisambulanz)
Medical/Professional background
- since 2009
Professor “Immunodermatology”, Assistant Medical Director, Dep. of Dermatology, University Hospital, Heidelberg (Prof. A. Enk)
- 2009
Professor “Allergy and Dermatologic Immunotherapy”, Department of Dermatology, University Hospital, Dresden
- 2008
Consultant Immunologist, German Society of Immunology
- 2004
Consultant, Dept. Dermatology
- 2003
Board certified in Dermatology and board certified in Allergology
- 2000 – 2003
Residency, Dept. of Dermatology (Prof. M. Meurer) and Research Fellow Institute of Immunology, Dresden
- 1995 – 2000
Postdoc, Institute of Immunology, Medical Faculty, Dresden, (Prof. E.P. Rieber)
- 1993 – 1995
Residency, Dept. of Dermatology, University Hospital, Göttingen (Prof. Ch. Neumann)
Scientific background
- 2005
Habilitation Immunology; Venia legendi Dermatology (supervised by Prof. E.P. Rieber)
- 1993
Doctor of Medicine, Medical School Hannover (supervised by Prof. W. Müller)
- 1990 – 1991
Predoc, Infectious Diseases, SUNY at Buffalo, New York, USA (Prof. P.L. Ogra)
Commendations
- 2010
Champion Novartis Research Prize
- since 2008
Member of the Collegium Internationale Allergologicum (CIA)
- 2007
Karl-Hansen Award of the German Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
- 2005 – 2009
Member of the DFG-Research Center “Center of Regenerative Therapies Dresden“
- 2003 – 2006
Senator of the Technical University Dresden
