Florian Heidel

Florian Heidel attended Medical School at the Friedrich-Alexander University in Erlangen, Germany and completed his residency (Internal Medicine) and fellowship (Hematology and Medical Oncology) at the Johannes-Gutenberg University Medical Center in Mainz, Germany. From 2009 until 2012, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Laboratory of Professor Scott A. Armstrong, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI), Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA. During that time he focused on functional studies of hematopoietic and leukaemia stem cells. After his post-doctoral training he started his own laboratory and junior research group at the Otto-von-Guericke University Medical Center in Magdeburg, Germany and was also the responsible attending physician for the leukemia program. In 2015, Florian Heidel and his group re-located to the Friedrich-Schiller-University Medical Center in Jena, where he is currently holding a professorship for stem cell biology and is heading the collaborative research group for stem cell biology at the Leibniz Institute on Aging. Focus of his group is the functional characterisation of signaling pathways in the aging hematopoietic system and in myeloid neoplasia.