Lead Coordinator
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Prof. Dr. med. A. Günther
(RA „Fibrotic Repair & Remodeling“)Section Head
“Interstitial and Rare Lung Diseases”
University Hospital Gießen & Marburg
Justus-Liebig-University Gießen
Klinikstrasse 33
D – 35392 Gießen
andreas.guenther@innere.med.uni-giessen.deMedical Chair
AGAPLESION Lung Clinic Waldhof-Elgershausen
D – 35753 Greifenstein
a.guenther@klinikwaldhof.de
- Prof. Dr. med. A. Günther (representing the RA „Fibrotic Repair & Remodeling“. Andreas Günther is board certified physician in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care and Sleep Medicine and W3 Professor of Internal Medicine at the JLU. He leads a Center for Interstitial and Rare Lung Diseases at the University Hospital Giessen (UKGM) and a specialized Lung Clinic (Ev. Krankenhaus in Gießen). Prof. Günther conducts several pharma-sponsored clinical, as well as in investigator-driven studies (30). He is speaker of the Clinical Research Unit (CRU) “Pathomechanism and Therapy of Lung Fibrosis” (KFO 118, initial funding DFG) and coordinates the European IPF/ILD Registry/Biobank (initial funding EU FP7) and a recently funded European Network on ILD (RARE-ILD, EU-EJP-RD program). He also coordinates the disease area “Diffuse Parenchymal Lung Diseases” of the “University of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center” (Excellency program LOEWE) and the “German Center for Lung Research” (DZL, BMBF), the discovery area “Cellular Surveillance” of the excellency cluster “Cardiopulmonary Institute” (CPI, DFG) and the platform “Biobanking and Data Management” (DZL). His main research interest includes mechanisms of alveolar epithelial injury, regeneration and repair and alveolar homeostasis. As of January 2021, he has published 213 original manuscripts in international, peer-reviewed journals, 54 invited reviews, editorials or commentaries, 14 book-, 4 textbook chapters. Prof. Günther received the Heisenberg stipend (DFG), the Young Investigator Award (German Society of Pneumology) and the Oscar Medicine Prize (Oskar Helene Heim Foundation). He has profound experience as lecturer in the fields of Internal Medicine and in the International Graduate Program “Molecular Biology and Medicine of the Lung” (MBML) and was rewarded twice “Best Teacher of the Year”. He also supervised a larger group of medical (n=64) and PhD (n=17) students.