Markus Loeffler#
| Membership Number: | 7302 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BASIC AND CLINICAL TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCES |
| Affiliated section(s): | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://imise.uni-leipzig.de |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-0424-9933 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 7/2023 Emeritus Professor, with continuing responsponsibility for several projects
- 1994- 2023 Full Professor and Director of the Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology, Univ Leipzig
- 2010- 2026 PI of the LIFE Excellence Cluster for Civilisation Diseases Leipzig
- 1998 -2023 Director of the Coordination of Center of Clinical Trials at the University of Leipzig
- 1999 - 2023 Director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Bioinformatics at the University of Leipzig
- 1992 Sabbatical at the University of Reading, Dept of Statistics, UK
- 1984 - 1994 Senior Scientist at the Departement of Haematology and Oncology at the University of Cologne
- 1980 - 1984 Research Scientist at the Dpertment of Haematology and Omncology at the University of Cologne
Fields of Scholarship
- Biometry of randomized clinical trials in cancer and sepsis
- Observational clinical trials in cancer and sepsis
- Medical Informatics
- Population based epidemiology
- Bioinformatic profiling of cancers
- Mathematical modelling of stem cell systems and regenerative tissues and carcinogenesis
Honours and Awards
- 2024 Order of Merit of the Free State of Saxony
- 2018 - 2025 Member of the National Steering Group of the Medical Informatics Initiative
- 2016 - 2022 Member of the board of directors of the German National Cohort (NAKO)
- 2011 - 2019 Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Federal Minster of Science and Technology (BMBF)
- 2010 - 2018 Member of the Clinical Trial Advisory Committe of the German Cancer Aim (Krebshilfe)
- 2008 - 2011 Speaker of the National Network of Clinical Trial Coodination Centers
- Principal investigator of major grant projects (exceeding 10 Mio € each)
- 2018 - 2026 PI of the SMITH Consortium of the National Medical Informatics Initiative
- 2019 - 2026 PI of the POLAR and INTERPOLAR Consortia of the National Medical Informatics Initiative
- 2010 - 2023 PI of the Excellence Cluster LIFE at the University of Leipzig
- 2015 - 2022 PI of the National Network of Hereditary Non-Polyposis Colorectal Cancer
- 1974 - 1980 Fellowship of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes (for outstanding students)
