Dr. Ulrich Mahlknecht studied medicine at the University of Bochum, the University of Birmingham, the Paris-Sud 11 University and the University of Tübingen, where he received his medical doctorate in 1995. Dr. Ulrich Mahlknecht received his postgraduate medical training in internal medicine at the University of Freiburg in Freiburg im Breisgau. From 2004 until 2007 he was an associate professor at the University Hospital Heidelberg where he was the head of the acute leukemias and myelodysplastic syndromes task force. Ulrich Mahlknecht was the founder of the Heidelberg excellence center for myelodysplastic syndromes. In 2007 Ulrich Mahlknecht became a full professor of medicine at the Saarland University, where he is currently head of the Division of Immunotherapy and Gene Therapy within the Department of Internal Medicine.

Molecular Medicine, Therapeutics, Translational Research, Internal medicine, Oncology