since 2022: Chairman of the German Medical Association
since 2007: Director, Center for Integrated Oncology CIO, Universities of Cologne and Bonn, since 2019, Universities of Aachen Bonn Cologne Düsseldorf
since 2003: C4-Professor, University of Cologne
1999-2003: C3-Professor, University of Munich
1998-2005: Head, Clinical Cooperation Group GSF (Helmholtz Institute) Munich
1995-2003: Senior Consultant, University of Munich
1994-2005: Research Group Leader, Gene Center Munich
1990-1992: Research Associate, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, USA
1985-2003: Residences and training in pharmacology, internal medicine, hematology and oncology at the Technical University (Rechts der Isar Hospital) and University of Munich (Innenstadt and Grosshadern Hospitals)
since 2020: Associate Editor of BLOOD
since 2019: Co-Chair, Strategy Advisory Board “National Decade against Cancer”, Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
since 2019: Member of the Supervisory Board of the University Hospital Munich
since 2019: President, Walter-Siegenthaler Society
2019: José Carreras Award of the European Hematology Association
since 2018: Chairman Scientific Committee, European School of Haematology, Paris
2018: Ham-Wasserman Lecture, American Society of Hematology
2018: Johann-Georg-Zimmermann Award
2017: Arthur Burkhardt Award
2017: German Cancer Award
2016: Walter-Siegenthaler Medal in gold
2016-2019: Chairman and 2018-2019 Executive Chairman, German Society of Hematology and Medical Oncology DGHO
since 2014: Scientific Board Member and Vice-Chairman (since 2019), German Chamber of Physicians
2014-2017: Scientific Committee of the American Society of Hematology
2014-2015: President, German Society of Internal Medicine DGIM
2014: President of the German Cancer Congress
2013: Binet-Rai Medal of the International Workshop on CLL iwCLL
2013-2019: Chairman, Clinical Research Unit 286 “DNA damage response in CLL” (DFG)
2013-2016: Senate Commission “Grundsatzfragen der Klinischen Forschung”, German Research Foundation (DFG)
2012: Paul-Martini Award
2011-2019: Editor-in-Chief “Oncology Research and Treatment”
since 2011: Member of the National Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina
2009-2014: Chairman, Collaborative Research Center 832 “Tumor Microenvironment”
since 2008: Center of Excellence in Oncology Award, Center for Integrated Oncology CIO Cologne-Bonn
since 2000: Scientific Committee Member, International Working Group on CLL (iwCLL), Chair since 2015
1999: Artur-Pappenheim Award, German Society of Hematology and Oncology
since 1996: Founder and Chairman of the German CLL Study Group