Prof. Hermann Haller
Hannover, Germany
Hermann Haller is full professor and Chairman of the Division of Nephrology and Director of the Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, at the Hannover Medical School, Germany. He studied medicine at the Free University, Berlin, and then held several research positions, including Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Yale University Medical School, Division of Endocrinology, USA. Since 2007 he has been appointed as Coordinator of the integrated research and treatment centre for transplantation (IFB-Tx), Hannover Medical School and since 2011 as Honorary Professor of Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan, China and Director of the Sino-German Clinical Trial Centre of Tongji Hospital, China. Prof. Haller is also a member of the Faculty of the MDIBL (Mount Desert Biological Island Laboratory, Bar Harbor in Maine, US). Furthermore he is responsible for the coordination of international affairs at Hannover Medical School.
Prof. Haller's key areas of interest include mechanisms of chronic transplant nephropathy, biomechanical phenotype regulation in the heart and circulatory system and compliments mediated kidney diseases . Prof. Haller is a member of numerous hypertension and cardiology societies, including the European Council for Blood Pressure and Cardiovascular Research, the International Society of Hypertension, and the Council of the European Society of Hypertension.
He has published more than 500 manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals.
