Wolfgang Lieb MD, MSc

Dr. Wolfgang Lieb, MSc is an epidemiologist and geneticist (FA for human genetics) and director of the Institute for Epidemiology and the Biobank PopGen ( www.popgen.de ) at the Christian-Albrechts-University (CAU) and the UKSH in Kiel.

After studying human medicine in Rostock, Nancy (France) and at Brown University in Providence, RI (USA), Prof. Lieb initially worked in the Department of Internal Medicine II at the University Hospital in Regensburg. In 2003 he moved to the University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein (UKSH), Campus Lübeck, where he completed his further training as a specialist in human genetics. Parallel to his specialist training, he worked in the working group of Prof. Schunkert and Prof. Erdmann on research into the genetic basis of cardiovascular diseases.

From 2007 to 2010, Prof. Lieb completed a research fellowship at the Framingham Heart Study and acquired a "Master of Science in Epidemiology" at the Boston University School of Public Health while working.

In December 2010 he was appointed to a W2 professorship for individualized medicine at the Institute for Community Medicine at the University Medical Center Greifswald. In November 2012 he took over the management of the newly founded Institute for Epidemiology and the Biobank PopGen at the CAU and the UKSH in Kiel. Together with Prof. Krawczak, Prof. Lieb heads the biobank network P2N. In addition, Prof. Lieb heads the NAKO health study in Kiel