Werner Seeger#
| Membership Number: | 4545 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLINICAL & VETERINARY SCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2017 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
Present and Previous Positions
- Chief of the Department of Internal Medicine, Medical Hospital University Giessen
- Section Head of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Medical Hospital University Giessen
- Chief Executive Medical Director of the University Medical Hospital Giessen and Marburg (UKGM)
- Chairman of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL)
- Chairman of the Universities of Giessen & Marburg Lung Center (UGMLC)
- Chairman of the Excellence Cluster Cardio-Pulmonary System (ECCPS)
- Director, Max-Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research
- Director, Instituto de Investigación en Biomedicina de Buenos Aires (IBioBA) CONICET
- Partner Institute of the Max Planck Society, Argentina
Fields of Scholarship
- Pulmonary fibrosis
- Acute respiratory distress syndrome
- Lung physiology
- Pulmonary hypertension
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- Lung infection
- Lung cellular and molecular biology
Honours and Awards
- 2019 Balzan Prize - Pathophysiology of respiration: from basic sciences to the bedside
- 2014 American Heart Association Dickinson W. Richards Memorial Award
- 2014 Fellow of the European Respiratory Society (FERS)
- 2014 Von Behring-Röntgen Research Medal
- 2014 European Respiratory Society Congress Award for Outstanding Scientific Achievements
- 2013 International Pulmonary Vascular Research Institute Achievement Award
- 2008 Robert-Pfleger Award
- 2000 Election to the German Academy of Natural Sciences Leopoldina
- 1988 Theodor Frerichs Award, German Society for Internal Medicine (DGIM)
- 1987 Schunk Award for Medicine, Justus-Liebig University Giessen
