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Helmholtz Centre Munich Expands Epidemiological Research
The Helmholtz Centre Munich expands its research activity to four epidemiological units. The two existing Institutes of Epidemiology under the direction of Prof. Dr H.-Erich Wichmann and Prof. Dr Annette Peters respectively were augmented by the establishment of the new Institute of Genetic Epidemiology and the Department of Molecular Epidemiology at the beginning of the year. With Prof. Dr Konstantin Strauch and assistant professor PD Thomas Illig two renown epidemiologists could be appointed as their respective directors. Strauch takes over the newly established Institute of Genetic Epidemiology and the chair of the same name at the LMU. Illig will head the independent Department of Molecular Epidemiology.
Previously, Strauch was a W2 professor for Medical Biometry and Epidemiology at the Medical Faculty of the Philipps University Marburg and head of the Centre for Genetic-Epidemiological Methods in Marburg. He studied physics at the University of Würzburg and at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, earned his PhD in statistical genetics at the University of Bonn and habilitated in genetic epidemiology at the medical faculty.
