Prof. Dr. med. Falk Hiepe

Since 2019
Senior Professor, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin

1997-2019
Full Professor of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin

Since 1997
Group Leader German Rheumatism Research Centre Berlin, a Leibniz Institute, Autoimmunology Group

1993-2019
Deputy Director, Department of Rheumatology and Clin. Immunology, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin

1995
Research Fellow, W. M. Keck Autoimmune Disease Center (Head: E.M. Tan), The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA

1988
Completed postdoctoral dissertation (habilitation, prerequisite for professorship) at the Humboldt University in Berlin

1987
Visiting Professor at the Second Dept. of Medicine, Teikyo University and Department of Medicine & Physical Therapy (Kazuhiko Yamamoto’s Lab), University of Tokyo, Japan

1977
degree thesis (Dr. med.), Faculty of Medicine, Humboldt University, Berlin)

1976
Diploma (Dipl.-Med.), Faculty of Medicine, Humboldt University, Berlin

1994
Specialization in Rheumatology

1983
Specialization in Internal Medicine

1978-1983
Resident Department of Internal Medicine, Charité Berlin, Germany

1971-1976
Study of Medicine, Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany

Since 2014
Chair,  Deutsche Gesellschaft für Lupus-Forschung

Since 2000

• IUIS/WHO/AF/CDC Committee for the Standardization of Autoantibodies in Rheumatic and Related Diseases
• International Advisory Board of Modern Rheumatology, The Japan Rheumatism Association
• Speaker, Arbeitskreis „Extrakorporale Therapieverfahren und Stammzelltherapie“, DGRh

2002-2014
Drug Commission of the German Medical Association

The German Society for Rheumatology, The German Society for Immunology, The Henry Kunkel Society, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Lupus-Forschung, EBMT working party “autoimmune diseases”, Rheuma-Liga Berlin e.V., Gesellschaft für Natur- und Heilkunde in Berlin, Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Immundiagnostik e.V., Freunde und Förderer der Charité

Award Wolfgang-Schulze Foundation, EULAR-award of EWRR, Ideenwettbewerb Deutsche Rheumastiftung,

Humboldt Award for Best Diploma, Research Award Charité Hospital