Prof. Martin Metz Charité – University Medicine, Germany

Martin Metz is Professor of Dermatology and Deputy Director of the Institute of Allergology at the Charité – University Medical Center Berlin, Germany and Fraunhofer Institute for Translational Medicine and Pharmacology ITMP, Allergology and Immunology. He received his medical education at the Free University of Berlin and the Humboldt University... read moreof Berlin. He was trained in dermatology at the King’s College Hospital, London, and at the University of Mainz, and in experimental pathology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre and Harvard Medical School in Boston (1997–98) and at Stanford University (2004–06) in the USA, and is board certified in Dermatology and Allergology. His main scientific areas of interest are mast cell biology, neuroimmunology, inflammation and innate immunity. The major clinical and translational focus is on pruritus and mast cell-mediated diseases. He has published more than 300 peer-reviewed publications (including Science, Nature, Nature Medicine, N Engl J Med, Lancet, Immunity) and 24 book chapters, his h-Index is 82.