Süleyman Ergün is a full Professor at the Institute of Anatomy and Cell Biology at Julius Maximilians University, Würzburg, Germany. Prior to being appointed to his current position, he completed his doctoral thesis (1993) and his “Habilitation” (1998) at the Institute of Anatomy, Hamburg–Eppendorf University Hospital. He undertook a post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard Medical School (Judah Folkman’s Lab) (1997) and was a member of the executive board of the Hamburg “Ärztekammer”, Germany (2002–2003). In 2006, he was appointed Chair of the Institute of Anatomy at Essen University Hospital, Germany. Since 2011, he has been Chair of the Institute of Anatomy and Cell Biology at Julius Maximilians University, Würzburg, Germany. He was a member of the executive board of the Anatomical Society (2014–2019) and has been elected to the review panel for medicine at the “Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG (German Research Foundation) (since 2020). His research covers vascular biology and endothelial barrier function; cardiovascular regeneration; angiogenesis and vasculogenesis, including tumor vascularization, stem and progenitor cell biology; vascular bioprinting; and organoids. He received the Gordon Research Conference (GRC) Award for Vascular Cell Biology and the Konjetzny Award of the “Hamburger Krebsgesellschaft” (Cancer Society of Hamburg) for his research on processes of the structural formation of the vessel wall in angiogenesis and the growth of tumors, among other awards.
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