University Hospital Erlangen
Erlangen, Germany 
Head of the Department
Prof. Dr. Gerold Schuler
Department of Dermatology
Department of Dermatology at University Hospital Erlangen provides conservative and surgical care for patients with skin diseases. The department is internationally recognized as a Center of High Competence and it directs a special focus towards the treatment of inflammatory skin diseases and tumors. The department has a Skin Cancer Center that is working in close cooperation with the center of gravity for tumor therapy in the region of North Bavaria.
The department has 46 beds where over 2,200 inpatients and 1,400 semi-patients are treated every year under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Med. Gerold Schuler. The department also offers its service on an outpatient basis where it provides care for over 50,000 outpatients annually. The research unit of the department has about 182 workers, of which there are 39 doctors and 23 scientists. The main research projects are the biology of dendritic cells and vaccine development.
The Department of Dermatology at University Hospital Erlangen is specialized in the diagnosis and treatment of:
• Malignant melanoma
• Allergies
• Vitiligo
• Psoriasis
• Eczema
• Erectile dysfunction
Academic and Professional Career
- 1969 - 1975 Study of Medicine at the University of Innsbruck, Austria.
- 1975 - 1977 Work at the Institute of Histology and Embryology, University of Innsbruck, Austria.
- 1977 - 1983 Medical Specialist training for skin and venereal diseases, University Hospital Innsbruck, Austria.
- 1983 - 1985 Research Fellow at the Rockefeller University, New York, USA.
- 1984 Habilitation.
- 1993 Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Experimental Dermatology of the University Hospital Innsbruck, Austria.
- Since 1995 Head of the Department of Dermatology at the University Hospital Erlangen.
Project Coordination, Membership in Joint Projects
- 1997 - 2002 German Research Foundation Project "Immune Tolerance Induction by Dendritic Cells".
- 2004 - 2016 Spokesman of the German Research Foundation Collaborative Research Center 654 "Strategies of the cellular immunotherapy".
Awards and Honorary Memberships
- 1983 Fellow of the Max Kade Foundation.
- Since 1998 Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
- 2006 German Cancer Award.
- Since 2010 Member of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.
Department of Dermatology
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