Prof. Dr. med. Heiner Wedemeyer – Curriculum Vitae

Heiner Wedemeyer is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Infectious Diseases and Endocrinology at Hannover Medical School since April 1, 2020. He was Professor and Chairman of the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the University Clinic Essen from February 2018 to April 2020.

He received his medical degree from the University of Göttingen in 1996 and subsequently started his training in Internal Medicine at Hannover Medical School in Germany. From 1998 to 2000, he was a research fellow in immunology at the Liver Diseases Branch, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA. Since 2001, he completed his training in Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology at Hannover Medical School, where he became Professor of Medicine in 2011.

Professor Wedemeyer has been involved in the scientific coordination of the German Network of Competence on Viral Hepatitis (Hep-Net) and the German Liver Foundation for more than 15 years. Currently, he serves as the Managing Director of the German Hepatitis C Registry. Heiner Wedemeyer is member of several scientific organizations and was Secretary General of the European Association for the Study of the Liver from 2009 to 2011. He is furthermore spokesperson of the “D-SOLVE” consortium funded by the European Union which aims at finding new strategies for the personalized treatment of hepatitis D. Since January 2023 Heiner Wedemeyer is President of the German Society for Digestive and Metabolic Diseases (DGVS).

Professor Wedemeyer has a long-term research interest in liver diseases with a main focus on viral hepatitis, liver transplantation and hepatocellular carcinoma. He has been principal investigator in numerous clinical trials, focusing on antiviral therapy and immunotherapy of viral hepatitis B, C, D and E. He has authored more than 560 original articles; his current Hirsch-Index is 113 (google scholar; January 2024) and his work has been quoted more than 58,000 times.

Heiner Wedemeyer has received numerous awards including the Hans Popper Award of the International Association of the Study of the Liver in 2002, the Innovation Award of the German Medical Faculties (2011) and the Rudolph Schoen Award (2011), the EASL Registry Grant (2014) and the Solko W. Schalm Award (2023). His research has been funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), the German Ministry of Research and Education (BMBF), the European Union, the European Association for the Study of the Liver and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Contact

Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. Heiner Wedemeyer

Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Infectious Diseases and Endocrinology
Hannover Medical School
Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1
30625 Hannover
Germany

Telefon +49 511 532-3305
Fax +49 511 532-4896

gastroenterologie@mh-hannover.de