Professor, Chair of the Department of Medicine V, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany
Prof. Dr. med. Anthony D. Ho has been Chair of the
Department of Medicine V [Hematology, Medical Oncology
and Rheumatology] of the University of Heidelberg
since April 1998. He attended Medical School at
the University of Innsbruck, Austria, and at the
Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg and graduated
in 1974. Thereafter he received training in internal
medicine, hematology and medical oncology at the
Medical Center of the University of Heidelberg.
In 1990 he accepted a position as Full Professor
at the University of Ottawa, Canada, and founded
a cancer research center and a bone marrow transplant
unit at the Northeastern Ontario Regional Cancer
Center, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. Accepting an offer
as Professor of Medicine at the University of California,
San Diego [UCSD], he relocated to San Diego in 1992.
Subsequently he was appointed Co-division Chief
of Hematology-Oncology at UCSD from 1994-1998. His
tenure at UCSD ended in April 1998 when as he accepted
his present position as Chair of the Department
of Medicine V in Heidelberg. His focus of research
has been the behavior and biology of marrow derived
stem cells and their applications in clinical transplantation.
He has built up blood stem cell transplantation
units at University of Heidelberg, the Cancer Center
in Sudbury and at UCSD. He is a member of the Heidelberg
Academy of Sciences, and the National Ethics Commission
for Stem Cell Research of Robert-Koch Institute,
Berlin. He received the title of Honorary Professor
from the Tongji Medical University in Wuhan, China,
in October 2003. |
