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Dr. med. Barbara Ludwig

Barbara Ludwig Dr. Ludwig, recently recruited from University of Madison in Wisconsin, is a physician and staff scientist in the Division of Endocrinology within the Department of Medicine. She provides extensive experience in pancreatic islet cell transplantation in human and in animal models. She has recently established successfully the transplantation of islets into the adrenal gland and is directing the human islet transplantation programme in Dresden.

Scientific career

1997-2003	Medical school, University of Leipzig
2004	Medical licence
2005	Doctorate “summa cum laude”, University of Leipzig
2004-2006	Clinical training at the Clinic of Visceral-, Transplantation-, Thorax- and Vascular Surgery, University of Leipzig
2004-2006	Research Fellowship at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA Pancreatic islet isolation and transplantation
2006-present	Clinical training in Internal Medicine and Endocrinology and staff Scientist at the Dept. of Internal Medicine III, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus at the Technische Universität Dresden
2006-present	Head of islet transplantation program
2009	Derek Gray Fellowship Award, International Pancreas and Islet Transplantation Association (IPITA)