Prof. Dr. Wiltrud Richter
Curriculum Vitae
2010 – now
Director of the Research Centre for Experimental Orthopaedics at Heidelberg University Hospital
2004 - now
Full Professor Medical Facuty, University of Heidelberg
2012
Offer for W3 Professorship at the Freiburg Medical Faculty (declined)
1998-2009
Head of the Division fpr Experimental Orthopaedics at Heidelberg University Hospital
1995
Habilitation in Experimental Medicine, Medical Faculty, Universitx of Ulm
1992
Post-Doc at University of California, San Francisco
1988-1991
PhD, Dept. of Internal Medicine I, University of Ulm
1983-1987
qualified as Biologist and Immunologist, University of Ulm
Coordinating functions
2013
Scientific Program Director ICRS 2013
2010-2011
Board Member International Cartilage Repair Society (ICRS)
2008 - 2011
Board Member Fachkollegium German Research Foundation (DFG)
2007
Road-Map Initiative Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
2005 - 2011
President German Basic Research Society for Orthopedic Surgery
2005 - 2011
Board Member European Orthopaedic Research Society (EORS)
Fields of interest
Biology of induced pluripotent stem cells and adult mesenchymal stroma cells (MSC), trophic actions of MSC and differentiation into cartilage and bone, molecular mechanisms of chondrocyte differentiation, tissue engineering, functionalized biomaterials for instructive tissue regeneration; biomechanical load transmission and influences on cell differentiation.