Rita Beier studied Human Medicine at Hannover Medical School with stays abroad in Austria, Great Britain and Canada. She completed her studies in 1998 and at the same time obtained her doctorate in anatomy on the subject of how the immune system can obtain information via the intestine.
During her specialist training at the Children's Hospital of Hannover Medical School, Dr. Beier focused on pediatric haematology and oncology and intensive care medicine. After six years of training in Hanover, she moved to the Saarland University Hospital. She also passed her specialist examination in pediatric and adolescent medicine in Saarland in 2005. She completed her training as a pediatric hematologist and oncologist in Prof. Dr. N. Graf's Department, which she completed in 2009. In 2008, she moved back to Hannover Medical School and worked in the inpatient and outpatient care of stem cell transplant patients and in the pediatric oncology consultation service. In 2011, she passed the examination for the additional qualification in palliative medicine. In 2015, she moved to the University Hospital Duisburg-Essen, where she took up a senior physician position in the transplant team and represented the focus on transplants for congenital diseases (in particular immunodeficiencies and haemoglobinopathies). From 2019 to 2020, she was head of pediatric stem cell transplantation in Essen before moving to the stem cell transplantation team at Hannover Medical School.
Dr. Beier's scientific work focuses on the development of therapy concepts for rare diseases. She also worked in the study center for the treatment of acute lymphoblastic leukemia, where she was involved in the development of treatment protocols. She was also involved in the development of a therapy concept for rhabdoid tumors. In 2018, she was appointed head of the Pediatric Registry for Stem Cell Transplantation (PRST).
To work on clinical studies, she is completing an additional course of study at the Harvard School of Public Health in the Master's program in Clinical Epidemiology.