Prof. Georg Holländer University of Oxford, UK

Professor Georg A Holländer was trained in both Paediatrics and Experimental Immunology in Switzerland and the U.S. He held academic positions at Harvard Medical School, Boston, US and the University of Basel, Switzerland, before he joined the University of Oxford in 2010 as the Hoffmann and Action Research Professor of... read moreDevelopmental Medicine, and the Head of the Department of Paediatrics. In Oxford, he has created the Institute of Developmental and Regenerative Medicine (IDRM) which focuses on the cellular and molecular mechanisms that underpin developmental biology as essential to our understanding of both human health and disease. In addition to his leadership role in Oxford, he is since 2019 also Director of the Botnar Research Centre for Child Health, University of Basel and ETH Zürich, and formally holds academic appointments in both Switzerland and the UK. He is Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences and a Corresponding Member of the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences (SAMS). He holds a Visiting Professorship at the Institute for Genome Research, The University of Tokushima, Japan, and is a member of national and international advisory boards, and supervisory boards of academic institutions and companies.