Prof. Dr.
Markus Löffler

Director of the institute
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Phone: +49 341 97 16100
Fax: +49 341 97 16109
Postal address: Prof. Dr. Markus Löffler
Universität Leipzig
Institut für Medizinische Informatik, Statistik und Epidemiologie
Härtelstraße 16-18
04107 LEIPZIG
GERMANY
Universität Leipzig
Institut für Medizinische Informatik, Statistik und Epidemiologie
Härtelstraße 16-18
04107 LEIPZIG
GERMANY
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Curriculum Vitae
Personal
Born: October, 28th, 1954
Married, two children
Born: October, 28th, 1954
Married, two children
Academic Responsibilities
Since 2009 | Director of the Leipzig Research Centre for Civilisation Diseases (LIFE), Leipzig |
Since 2001 | Scientific Director of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Bioinformatics (IZBI), Leipzig |
Since 1999 | Scientific Director of the Centre for Clinical Trials (ZKS-Leipzig), Leipzig |
Since 1994 | Full Professor and Director of the Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology, Leipzig |
Education
1990 | Habilitation and Venia Legendi for Medical Statistics and Biomathematics, Cologne |
1983 | Dissertation, University of Cologne |
1982 | Graduation (Diploma) in physics, University of Cologne |
1980 | Graduation as physician (MD), University of Cologne, Germany |
1976 – 82 | Study of physics |
1974 – 80 | Study of medicine |
Research responsibities
- Responsible for biometry and data management of a large number of clinical trials, biomarker cohort studies and epidemiological studies organised in 10 national research networks
- Member of steering boards of these research networks (glioma, lymphoma, colorectal cancer, breast cancer, sepsis, heart failure)
- editiorial board of several academic journals
Research fields
- Biometry of interventional clinical trial and cohort trials
- Cancer epidemiology
- Bioinformatics of high dimensional data analyses
- Computer based modeling of stem cell and tissue organization