Barbara Wollenberg

Dr Barbara Wollenberg is Professor and Chair of the Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck in Lübeck at the University Hospital of Schleswig Holstein (UK-SH). She absolved her surgical education at the Department for Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery at Großhadern Medical Centre, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (LMU) gaining a broad surgical spectrum throughout otorhinolaryngology, frontal and lateral skull base surgery and reconstructive head and neck surgery. Simultaneously, she achieved a PhD in immunology. In 2001, she became a Heisenberg Scholar - a highly competitive research scholarship funded by the DFG (German Research Foundation).

In the past, Dr Wollenberg has held various other highly-respected positions, including the Subdean at the University of Lübeck (2004-2012), and Board Member of the Working Committee Otorhinolaryngology, Cranio-Maxillo-Facial Surgical Oncology of the German Cancer Society (AHMO, President: 2015-2017) President of the German Society for Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery (2017/2018). Currently, she is one of the senators of the German Research Foundation DFG and the German National Academy of Science Leopoldina. She is a member of various scientific societies, member of several editorial boards of International journals and reviewer of multiple cancer journals.

From the beginning of the residency, Dr Wollenberg is fascinated by oncologic research. She built up a large team from biologists and physicians predominantly focused on immunologic research at the border between the tumour and the immune system and the development of 'Immunological Therapies of HNSCC'. In this setting, she was very successful in winning research awards, raising grant funding and publishing in peer-reviewed journals and books. Dr Wollenberg is a passionate teacher in the laboratory as well as in the clinic.