Prof. Dr. Heike Bantel

Heike Bantel is a Principal Investigator in SP3 and a member of the Selection Comittee.

Her research focus lies on pathomechanisms and biomarkers of liver disease progression and treatment resistance in Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).

Prof. Bantel has organized scientific and clinical seminars for students and physicians at MHH since 2002. Since that same year, she has been organizing the teaching in the field of Hepatology and Gastroenterology for MD students at MHH. From 2009-2014, she organized several international scientific workshops of cancer-related topics at Villa Vigoni, Menaggio, Italy.

Year Position
2009 Board Certification in Gastroenterology
Since 2009 W2 Professorship (Translational Hepatology) and Consultant (Oberärztin) at MHH (Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Endocrinology)
2008 Board Certification in Internal Medicine
2003 Habilitation in Molecular Medicine (Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Düsseldorf)
2002-2009 Fellow in Internal Medicine (Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Endocrinology, MHH)
Since 2002 Head of the research group “Experimental and Translational Hepatology” at MHH (Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Endocrinology)
1999-2002 Research group leader at the University of Münster (Dept. of Immunology and Cell Biology) and at the University of Düsseldorf (Institute of Molecular Medicine)
1998-1999 Postdoctoral Fellow (Prof. Klaus Schulze-Osthoff, Dept. of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Infectious Diseases, University of Tübingen)
1997 Full “Approbation” as Physician
1996-1998 Fellow in Internal Medicine (Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Infectious Diseases, University of Tübingen)
1992-1994 Doctoral thesis “ACT measurement: the differential influence of celite and kaolin on contact phase activation during high-dose aprotinin therapy”
1996 Dr. med., University of Tübingen, (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. med. Hoffmeister)
1989-1996 Studies of Human Medicine, University of Göttingen, Tübingen and Ulm