"The foundation of the practice's success is undoubtedly the quality of the medical service and a high degree of trust in the experience of the treating physicians."
Prof. Dr. Med. Fred Fändrich
Professor Fändrich is the head of the Clinic for Applied Cell Therapy at the University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein and has specialized in research and teaching on the development of new, individualized forms of therapy for the future. He focuses on three major medical applications:
i. Immunotherapy of autoimmune diseases
ii. the use of autologous cell products to regenerate degenerated tissues and vessels
iii. the immunotherapy of malignancies.
Professor Fändrich began his career in 1986 as a general surgeon at Worms General Hospital in Germany. Over the next two decades, he was honored with numerous awards as a transplant surgeon, including
- Walter Brendel Prize (1993), German Society for Surgery
- von Langenbeck Prize (1997), German Society for Surgery
- Fritz Linder Prize (1999), German Society for Surgery
- Rudolf Pichlmayr Prize (2001), German Society for Surgery
- One of the Five Opinion Leaders of the World Transplant Society (Oxford) (2006)
In 2004 he was appointed Director of the Department of Transplantation Medicine and Biotechnology at the UKSH, and in 2005 Deputy Director of the Clinic for General and Thoracic Surgery at the UKSH. During his work as a transplant surgeon, Professor Fändrich turned to regenerative medicine. In 2002 he received the Georg Heberer Prize for his article published in the renowned journal Nature Medicine (Chiles Foundation, Oregon, USA). In 2009 he founded the Department of Applied Cellular Medicine at the CAU | UKSH.
Professional Activities
1986 -1989 Assistant doctor in the surgical department of the Worms General Hospital, Worms
1989 - 1990 General surgeon and scientific assistant at the Surgical Clinic of the University of Aachen, Aachen
1990 - 1991 Military service as a doctor in the Navy Medical Service (deep-sea diving specialist), Flensburg
Since 1991 surgeon in the surgical department (general, thoracic and transplant surgery), UKSH, Kiel 1993 senior physician in the surgical department (general, thoracic and transplant surgery), UKSH, Kiel 1997 chief senior physician for the kidney and liver transplant program in the surgical department Clinic, UKSH, Kiel In addition to the main activities and surgical interventions in the field of visceral and oncological surgery, esophagus, stomach, pancreas, bile ducts, liver and rectum/colon surgery
2004 Director of the Section for Transplantation Medicine and Biotechnology, UKSH, Kiel
2005 Deputy Director of the Clinic for General and Thoracic Surgery at the UKSH, Kiel 2009 - Director of the Department of Applied Cellular Medicine, CAU | UKSH, Kiel
Publications
Professor Fändrich is the author or co-author of more than 250 publications in international medical journals and books, including in the field of regenerative medicine.
