Christian Herder#
| Membership Number: | 7282 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BASIC AND CLINICAL TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.ddz.de |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-2050-093X |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2022 - present German Diabetes Center, Düsseldorf: Deputy director, Institute for Clinical Diabetology
- 2007 - present German Diabetes Center, Düsseldorf: Head of research group Inflammation
- 2003 - 2006 German Diabetes Center, Düsseldorf: Postdoctoral researcher
- 1999 - 2003 Institute for Transfusion Medicine and Immunohematology, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany: PhD student
Fields of Scholarship
- Inflammation-related mechanisms leading to type 2 diabetes and complications
- Environmental risk factors of diabetes and its complications
- Heterogeneity and reclassification of diabetes
- Biomarkers in the prediction and pathogenesis of diabetes and its complications
Honours and Awards
- 2024 Collaborative Professor, Kanazawa University, Japan
- 2019 Menarini Grant from the German Diabetes Association (DDG)
- 2016 Hans Christian Hagedorn Grant (DDG)
- 2013 Ferdinand Bertram Prize (DDG)
- 2009 Lecture in the Rising Star Symposium at the 45th Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD)
- 2007 Jühling Prize from the Anna Wunderlich-Ernst Jühling Foundation
