Prof. Dr. med. Derek Anthony Gerald Zieker-Fischer
Place of birth: Johannesburg / South Africa
PhD
11/2006 Establishment of home-made cDNA microarrays and investigation of gene expression after high-performance sports
Habilitation
10/2011
extraplan. Professorship 11/2013 Overexpression of the glycolytic enzyme PGK1 as an inducer of metastasis and peritoneal tumor seeding in gastric carcinoma
Professor of Surgery
Professional background
– 04/1999-11/2006 Study of human medicine at the Eberhard-Karls-University of Tübingen
– 09/2001-09/2002 Research year in the Department of Psychopharmacology at the Central Institute of Mental Health in Mannheim
– 09/2001-11/2006 Doctorate under the supervision of Prof. Dr. med. H. Northoff, Medical Director of the Department of Transfusion Medicine and Research at the University Hospital of Tübingen
– 05/2005-09/2005 Research semester and scientific assistant in the Department of Transfusion Medicine Research semester and research assistant in the Department of Transfusion Medicine
– 10/2005-02/2006 Study of human medicine at the University of Pretoria(South Africa)
– 02/2006-06/2006 Study of human medicine at the University of Basel(Switzerland)
Prof. Derek Zieker-Fischer
– since 01/2007 Resident at the Department of General, Visceral and Transplant Surgery at the University Hospital Tübingen (Prof. Dr. A. Königsrainer)
– since 01/2011 Junior research group leader Interfaculty Institute for Cell Biology, Department of Immunology Tübingen (Professor Dr. H-G. Rammensee) SFB 685 Subproject C9 and C12, BMBF IndividuaLiver
– since 01/2012 Head of Experimental Surgery at the Department of General, Visceral and Transplant Surgery at Tübingen University Hospital
– since 02/2012 Initiation of own clinical monocentric drug study
– since 01/2013 “HIPEC_Stomach” EudraCT:2011-004405-25
– since 10/2014 Specialist in general surgery / focus on coloproctology / senior consultant in surgery
– since 04/2016 Additional qualification in proctology, specialist in visceral surgery and head of the Surgical-Proctological Center Reutlingen
Awards / Prizes
Study experience
– Doctoral thesis: “Summa cum laude” (2006)
– “Carl-Liebermeisterpreis” of the University of Tübingen for outstanding research work (2007)
– “Best Abstract”, Fritz-Linder-Preisrägersitzung, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Chirurgie, Berlin (2008)
– “Fortbildungsstipendium” of the University of Innsbruck (2008)
– “Kurzvortrags- und Posterpreisgewinner ” des Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Chirurgie, Munich (2009)
– “Carl Langenbuch Prize” for the best lecture, Annual Congress of the German Society of Visceral Surgery, Hamburg (2009)
– “Advanced Training Scholarship” from the University of Innsbruck (2010)
– Admission to the Academy of Excellence of the German Society of Visceral Surgery (2010)
– Winner of the “Johnson&Johnson Medical Award” (2011)
– “Best Abstract”, Fritz Linder Award Winners’ Meeting, German Society for Surgery, Munich (2012)
– Investigator for HIPEC_Stomach (AMG study)
– Investigator for HEAT (AMG study)
– Investigator for GLONC-1 (AMG study)
– Investigator for Synchronus study
– Investigator for SAKK study (AMG study)
– High school diploma (June 1994, Johannes-Kepler-Gymnasium Reutlingen)
Further training – Military service (04.07.1994 – 30.06.1995)
– Training as a chef at Brenner’s Park – Hotel Baden-Baden (01.02.1996 – 14.07.1998)
– Teaching, further training and additional qualifications – Emergency and acute medicine: emergency doctor course and additional qualification in emergency medicine (2009)
– Baden-Württemberg certificate for university didactics in medicine (2009)
– Honorary activities – Managing Editor of the journal “Exercise and Immunology” (impact factor 7.053)
– Elected student representative on the student committee of the University of Tübingen (2001)
Foreign languages English, French, Italian