Peter Schirmacher#
| Membership Number: | 7548 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BASIC AND CLINICAL TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2026 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-0950-3339 |
| Publication Link: |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2004 Professor of Pathology and Director, Institute of Pathology (IPH), Heidelberg University, Germany
- 1998 - 2004 Professor of Pathology and Deputy Director, Institute of Pathology, University of Cologne, Germany
- 1991 - 1998 Research Associate and Attending Physician, Institute of Pathology, University of Mainz, Germany
- 1989 - 1991 Research Fellow, Liver Research Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Yeshiva University, Bronx, NYC, NY, USA
- 1987 - 1989 Research Fellow and Resident, Institute of Pathology, University of Mainz, Germany
- 2007 - 2019 Board member German Society of Pathology (DGP) (2012-2019 President)
- 2015 Board member European Society of Pathology (ESP) (2021- Executive Comittee Member, 2023-2025 President)
- 2025 Director International Collaboration on Cancer Reporting (ICCR)
- 2018 Director, Center for Personalized Medicine (ZPM), Heidelberg University Hospital, Germany
- 2011 Coordinator Centralized BioMaterialBank Heidelberg (BMBH), Coordinator of Biobanking Platforms
- 2011 Board Member German Liver Foundation
Fields of Scholarship
- Molecular pathology
- Molecular cancer research
- Biobanking
- Pathology
- Hepatobiliary pathology
- Research infrastructures
- Liver cancer research
- Liver research
Honours and Awards
- Boehringer Ingelheim Award
- 2012 Member of the German Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina
- 2019 Honorary Doctorate, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary
- 2020 Honorary Member German Society of Pathology
- 2020 Honorary Member Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- 2024 Honorary Member Hongkong College of Medicine
