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.