Chairman: Ulf Müller-Ladner

Professor Dr. Ulf Müller-Ladner, M.D.

Prof. Müller-Ladner is Chair for Internal Medicine and Rheumatology at the Justus-Liebig University Giessen, Germany, and Director of the Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology at the Kerckhoff-Clinic Bad Nauheim, Germany. Prior to this position, Prof. Müller-Ladner was Head of the Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology at the University of Regensburg, Germany.

Prof. Müller-Ladner is member of the Executive Committee of the German Society of Rheumatology, the EULAR Scleroderma Trials and Research Network (EUSTAR) as chairman and the German Network for Systemic Sclerosis. He is a fellow of the American College of Rheumatology, the American Association of Immunologists and the German Societies for Immunology and Gene Therapy. In addition, Prof. Müller-Ladner is serving as a consultant to the German Ministry for Health and Education (BMBF) and the German Research Foundation (DFG). At the latter, he is currently chairing the National Clinical Studies Program.

Prof. Müller-Ladner has received his medical degree from the University of Tübingen, Germany and received his internal medicine and rheumatology training at the Universities of Ulm and Regensburg, Germany. He also performed a 2-year basic research fellowship at the Department of Rheumatology of the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Prof. Müller-Ladner has authored and/or coauthored numerous research papers and book chapters on basic and clinical immunology and rheumatology disease topics. In addition, he is serving numerous journals in the field of clinical immunology, rheumatology and internal medicine as member of the editorial.