Torsten Haferlach PhD

Prof. Dr. Torsten Haferlach engaged in the development of new diagnostic tools as well as the link to treatment options in leukemia. He spent the first part of his career as a medical doctor and hematologist at the university clinics in Kiel and Gottingen then at the university clinic in Munich where he acted as both the senior physician at the Department of Internal Medicine and the Head of the laboratory for leukemia diagnostics. In 2005 he set up the Munich Leukemia Laboratory (www.mll.com) together with three colleagues from complementary disciplines. Today the lab processes with a team of 150 employees over 70,000 blood or bone marrow samples per year, his practice treats more than 4,000 patients, and nearly 450 articles have been published in top-ranking peer‐reviewed medical journals since the lab’s inception.