Profile of Prof Hermann Einsele
Hermann Einsele, MD, FRCP, is Full Professor of Internal Medicine and since 2004 Director of the Department of Internal Medicine II of the University Hospital Würzburg, Germany.
Following his medical training at the Universities of Tübingen, Manchester, and London, Professor Einsele became a research fellow in the Department of Haematology, Oncology, Rheumatology, and Immunology at the University of Tübingen, Germany. He was board certified in Internal Medicine in 1991 and in Haematology/Oncology in 1996. In 1999 was promoted as an Associate Professor. He was a visiting professor at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, WA, USA, and at the City of Hope Hospital, Duarte, CA, USA.
2011-2015 Hermann Einsele was Vice Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Würzburg, 2015-2021 Vice President of the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg and since 2020 he is Chair of the German Society of Hematology and Medical Oncology (DGHO).
In 1999, he became Chairman of the German Study Group Multiple Myeloma. In 2003, he received the van Bekkum Award, the highest Annual European award for research in the field of stem cell transplantation. In 2011 he was elected as an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists (London), in 2012 Nobel Lecturer Stem Cell Biology/ Transplantation, Nobel Forum, Karolinska Institute. Since 2014 he was elected as a member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz and since 2017 as an “Highly Cited Researcher” in the category Clinical Medicine.
He published more than 700 articles in peer-reviewed journals.