Prof. Dr. med. Jürgen Biederer
Oberarzt
(Diagnostische und interventionelle Radiologie)
Prüfarzt
(Translational Lung Research Center Heidelberg)
Facharzt für Radiologie
Ärztlicher / Beruflicher Werdegang
- seit 2013
Principal Investigator of the Translational Lung Research Center Heidelberg (TLRC) and the German Center for Lung Research (DZL)
- seit 2012
Principal Investigator (PI) of sub-project 7 (Imaging) within ASCONET/COSYCONET
- seit 2012
Head of the Section Pulmonary Radiology and Head of the Division Imaging in the Department of Internal Medicine (as part of the Department Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital Heidelberg)
- seit 2011
Member of the Ethics Committee of the Medical Faculty Kiel
- 2007 – 2012
Vice Director of the Department of Diagnostic Radiology in Kiel
- 2007
Associate Professor of the Medical Faculty in Kiel
- 2007
Head of the radiology section of the 1st Medical Hospital of University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel
- 2005 – 2006
Project Manager DIRO-Lung as part of the strategic alliance between DKFZ and Siemens Medical Solutions
- 2005 – 2006
Head of the Emmy-Schmidt-Group „Image guided individual therapy of chest disease“ at the DKFZ, Heidelberg
- 2005 – 2006
Fellowship in the Department of Radiology at German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) of the Helmholtz-Society (Heidelberg)
- 2003
Assistant Professor of Diagnostic Radiology
- 2001
Board certification in „Diagnostic Radiology”
- 1998
United States Medical License Examinations
- 1997
German Full License to Practice Medicine
- 1997 – 2005
Residency and Fellowship at the Department of Diagnostic Radiology at the University Hospital Kiel
- 1995 – 1996
Neurosurgery at Paracelsus-Klinik Osnabrück
Wissenschaftlicher Werdegang
- 1996
Thesis: ”Differenzierung der elektrophysiologischen Merkmale cerebellärer Körnerzellen in der Ontogenese: Patch-Clamp-Untersuchungen an Primärkulturen aus Hühnerembryonen” (grade: ”magna cum laude”)
- 1989 – 1995
Medical School of the Christian-Albrechts-University in Kiel
Auszeichnungen
- 2007
Felix-Wankel-Tierschutz-Award 2007 of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
- 2004 – 2007
Four congress poster prizes awarded to the supervised groups
- 2003
Inventors Award of the German Radiologic Society for „Artificial Chest for Diagnostic Radiology“
- 1991 – 1995
Scholarship of Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes
Research Interests
advanced imaging strategies for thoracic diseases with multi-slice detector CT and magnetic resonance imaging for diagnostics and motion-adapted radiotherapy
establishment of Lung MRI in clinical practice
experimental ex-vivo systems for thoracic imaging based on ventilated and perfused porcine lung explants inside a dedicated MR-compatible chest Phantom
Projects
1. ASCONET/COSYCONET: Sub-Project 7 (Imaging) ► http://www.asconet.net/html/ueberuns?clps65_1222959047=1
2. MRI of the lung at 1.5 and 3 Tesla: Development and clinical implementation of protocols (in collaboration with German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein in Kiel, University of Würzburg, University of Mannheim, National Jewish Health in Denver, Co. and Siemens Medical Sytems)
3. Non-contrast enhanced and contrast enhanced functional MRI of the lung
4. 4D-CT, 4D-PET-CT and dynamic MRI of respiratory mechanics
Patente
- 2002
German patent No. 101 21 159.7. Künstlicher Thorax.