Job Harenberg

Job Harenberg is Professor of Medicine and Haemostaseology and deputy director in the Department of Clinical Pharmacology Mannheim at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. He was appointed as Full Professor of Internal Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine Mannheim since 1991. He received his medical degree in 1975 from the Faculty of Medicine of the Ruprecht-Karls-University, Heidelberg, and achieved an habilitation in the field of Internal Medicine in 1984. Professor Harenberg has worked in thrombosis and haemostasis research and in the clinical treatment of patients for more than thirty years, and has published more than 200 peer-reviewed papers. He specializes in new antithrombotic agents for use in conventional and in new indications. He has several patents on new anticoagulants for diagnostic purposes. This year, he is organizing the 18th Glycosaminoglycan Symposium with Dr Benito Casu, which will be held at Villa Vigoni near Lake Como in Northern Italy.