Prof. Dr. med. Dr. rer. nat. Ahmed N. Hegazy

Since 2023
Tenured W2 Professor of Translational Gastroenterology, Department of Gastroenterology, Infectious Diseases and Rheumatology, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin

2018 – 2023
Lichtenberg Professor of Translational Gastroenterology, Department of Gastroenterology, Infectious Diseases and Rheumatology, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin

Since 2018
Principal Investigator, German Rheumatism Research Centre Berlin

Since 2017
Internal Medicine Resident, Department of Gastroenterology, Infectiology and Rheumatology, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany (Headed by Prof. Britta Siegmund); Qualification for “Facharzt Innere Medizin”

2012 – 2017
Postdoctoral Researcher, Translational Gastroenterology Unit, Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, University of Oxford, United Kingdom (Mentor: Prof. Fiona Powrie)

2012 – 2012
Research Associate, Experimental Immunology and Osteoarthritis Research, Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin (Headed by Prof. Max Löhning)

2010 – 2012
Internal Medicine Resident, Department of Gastroenterology, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany (Headed by Prof. Martin Zeitz)

2006 – 2007
Research Residence as part of Ph.D. training at the Institute of Experimental Immunology, University Hospital Zürich, Switzerland (Mentors: Prof. Zinkernagel and Prof. H. Hengartner)

2012
Doctor of Philosophy in Immunology (Dr. rer. nat.), “summa cum laude”; Institute of Biology, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany; Dissertation: „Stability and Plasticity of T Helper Type 1 and Type 2 Differentiation Programs“

2010
Doctor of Medicine (Dr. med.), “summa cum laude”, Department of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Hannover Medical School (MHH), Germany; Dissertation: „Role of CD4+ T Cell-Mediated Anti-Tumor Immunity in a BCR-ABL+ Murine Model of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia“

2007
Approbation, License to Practice Medicine, Germany

2005
Staatsexamen, Hannover Medical School, Germany

1996 – 2004
Bachelor of Medicine, Hannover Medical School (MHH), Germany and Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Egypt

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Immunologie; British Society for Immunology; Deutsche Gesellschaft für Gastroenterologie, Verdauungs- und Stoffwechselkrankheiten; European Crohn’s & Colitis Organisation; Arab-German Young Academy of sciences and humanities

2023
Successful evaluation of the Lichtenberg Professorship, Volkswagen Foundation

2022
Award of ERC Starting Grant 2022 “iMOTIONS” – European Commission

2018
Fellow of the BIH Clinician Scientist Excellence Programme, BIH

2017
Robert-Koch Postdoctoral Prize in Immunology, RKI Foundation

2017
Election to the Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Berlin – Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities

2017
Fellow of the BIH Junior Clinician Scientist Programme, Berlin Institute of Health (BIH)

2017
Lichtenberg Professorship, Volkswagen Foundation

2014 – 2016
Marie Curie Actions-Intra-European Fellowship for career development, European Commission

2013 – 2014
EMBO Long-Term Fellowship for postdoctoral research

2012
Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

2011
Dissertation Award for Tumour Research, Hannover Medical School