Hermann Einsele - Biography#

Hermann Einsele, MD, FRCP, is Full Professor of Internal Medicine and has been Director of the Department of Internal Medicine II of the University Hospital Würzburg, Germany, since 2004.

Following his medical training at the Universities of Tübingen, Manchester, and London, Hermann Einsele became a research fellow in the Department of Haematology, Oncology, Rheumatology, and Immunology at the University of Tübingen, Germany. Hermann Einsele was board certified in Internal Medicine in 1991 and in Haematology/Oncology in 1996. In 1999, he was promoted as an Associate Professor. He was Visiting Professor at the City of Hope Hospital, Duarte, CA and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Seattle, USA.

From 2011-2015 and since 2022 Hermann Einsele was Vice Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Würzburg, from 2021-2021 he was Advisory board member in the funding program "Zwanzig20 - Partnership for Innovation" of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and from 2015 -2021 Vice President of the University of Würzburg. Since 2018, he is the chair of the scientific working group on immunotherapy for hematological malignancies of the European Hematology Association. Since 2022, Prof. Einsele is Executive Chairman of the German Society of Hematology and Oncology.

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) and 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 2017/2018/2019/2020/2021/2022 as an ISI “Highly Cited Researcher” in the category Clinical Medicine. In 2022 Prof. Einsele received the Erasmus Hematology Award 2022 from the Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands and the Order of the Bavarian Constitution