Andreas Michael Engert MD

Andreas Engert, MD, is a professor of internal medicine, hematology, and oncology. He received his medical degree at the Hannover Medical School in Germany and had his medical training at the Hannover Medical School and the University Hospital of Cologne (Germany). Between 1988 and 1990 he worked at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund and the Royal Free Hospital in London, United Kingdom, on new immunotherapeutic approaches for cancer. After returning to Cologne, his group focused on developing antibody-based immunotherapy for patients with malignant lymphoma resulting in a number of experimental phase I/II clinical trials. He finished his postdoctoral lecture qualification in 1995, was appointed consultant and became head of staff 1996. He became coordinating editor of the Cochrane Hematological Malignancies Group (CHMG) and vice director of the Department for Hematology and Oncology in 2000.