Curriculum vitae (CV)

Prof. Dr. med. Brigitte M. Schlegelberger
Professor (C4) and former Director

married, 2 daughters *1984 and 1988

Academic career (selection)

• 7/2014 - 4/2023 Director of the Institute of Human Genetics (merger with the Institute of Cell and Molecular Pathology), Hannover Medical School
• 1/2001 - 6/2014 Director of the Institute of Cell and Molecular Pathology, Hannover Medical School
• 2000 Research sabbatical with study visit to the University of Chicago, IL, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, British Columbia Cancer Center, Vancouver, Canada, and St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA
• 1996 C3 tenured professorship for human genetics at the CAU Kiel
• 1994 C3-Herrmann and Lilly Endowed Professorship
• 1992 Habilitation for the subject of human genetics

Scientific career (selection)

• 1992 Habilitation in the field of human genetics
• 1986 Research stay with Prof. Dr. Lore Zech, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm
• 1984 Doctorate Dr. med.
• 1975-1982 Studied Human medicine at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and the Christian Albrechts University of Kiel

Functions in scientific societies and committees (selection)

• 2018 - 2020 President of the German Society for Human Genetics
• 2015 - 2018 Member of the Senate Commission on Genome Research of the German Research Foundation (DFG)
• 2012 - 2020 Member of the Review Board 205-03 of the German Research Foundation (DFG)
• 2007-2017 Member of the expert committee "Clinical Research and Clinical Basic Research" of German Cancer Aid
• Since 2018 Member of the Board of the Mildred Scheel Foundation (German Cancer Aid)
• Since 2019 Member of the working group "Major unresolved issues in cancer research" of the National Decade Against Cancer
• Since 2008 - 2015 Member of the Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) of the National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT)
• 2015 - 2022 Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the German José Carreras Leukemia Foundation e.V. and the international Josep Carreras Foundation
• 2000 - 2023 Spokesperson for the Hannover Center, German Cancer Aid Consortium "Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer"
• 2017 - 2023 Coordinator of the Familial Leukemia subnetwork in the European Reference Network (ERN) PaedCan
• 2017 - 2022 Spokesperson of the Scientific Advisory Board of the European Reference Network GENTURIS