Prof. Dr. med. Georg Weber MHBA

Chirurgie

Address
Chirurgie
Krankenhausstr. 12 Eingang Maximiliansplatz
91054 Erlangen

Institutions
Chirurgie

Phone
+49 9131 85-33296

Professional career

2022 –	Spokesperson of the Liver Center, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
2022 –	Head of the Pancreatic Kidney Transplantation Program, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
2020 –	Deputy Clinic Director and Senior Physician, Department of Surgery, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
2019 –	Head of Surgery Upper Gastrointestinal Tract, Department of Surgery, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
2017 –	Head of Pancreatic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
2015 – 2020	Senior Physician, Department of Surgery, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
2013 – 2015	Specialist and Assistant Physician, Clinic and Polyclinic for Visceral, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, Universitätsklinikum Carl Gustav Carus, TU Dresden
2010 – 2011	Assistant Physician, Clinic for General, Visceral and Thoracic Surgery, Krankenhaus Landshut-Achdorf, Lehrkrankenhaus der TU München
2005 – 2010	Assistant Physician, Department of Surgery, Klinikum rechts der Isar, TU München
1998 – 2005	Studies of human medicine, LMU and TU München

Acquisition of specialisation

2019	Specialist Physician for Visceral Surgery and Special Visceral Surgery
2013	Specialist Physician for General Surgery
2010	Additional qualification in emergeny medicine
2008	Specialist qualification in the rescue service

Academic career

2022	Appointment as Professor, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
2016 – 2018	Master of Health Business Administration (MHBA), FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
2016	Habilitation at the Faculty of Medicine, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
2015	Habilitation in Surgery (TU Dresden)
2015	Head of Studies Course
2014	Clinical Trial Investigator (AMG, GCP)
2013 –	Research Group Leader „Cellular immunity in inflammation and cancer“
2011 – 2013	Postdoc fellowship, Center for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
2007	PhD thesis „summa cum laude“ (TU München) on the topic: "Characterisation of the biological effects of IL-22 and IL-22-BP and their immunological role during inflammatory reactions"

Research Focus (AG Weber)

Pancreatic cancer
Tumor immunology
Liquid biopsy analyses
Immunopathogeneis of inflammatory reactions
B cells

Funding

DFG

BMBF

Selected publications

Brunner M, …, Weber GF. Analysis of intraoperative frozen pancreatic resection margin and prediction of postoperative pancreatic fistula risk during pancreatoduodenectomy. Journal of the American College of Surgeons. 2022 May 1;234(5):928-937.
Benard A, …, Weber GF. Interleukin-3 is a predictive marker for severity and outcome during SARS-CoV-2 infections. Nature Communications. 2021 Feb 18;12(1):1112.
Weber GF, Chousterman BG, He S, Fenn AM, et al.. Interleukin-3 amplifies acute inflammation and is a potential therapeutic target in sepsis. Science. 2015 Mar 13;347(6227):1260-1265.
Weber GF, Chousterman BG, Hilgendorf I, Robbins CS, et al.. Pleural innate response activator B cells protect against pneumonia via a GM-CSF-IgM axis. The Journal of Experimental Medicine, 2014 Jun 2;211(6):1243-56.
Rauch PJ, Chudnovskiy A, Robbins CS, Weber GF, et al.. Innate response activator B cells protect against microbial sepsis. Science, 2012 Feb 3;335(6068):597-601.
Weber GF, Gaertner FC, Erl W, Janssen KP, et al.. IL-22-mediated tumor growth reduction correlates with inhibition of ERK1/2 and AKT phosphorylation and induction of cell cycle arrest in the G2-M phase. The Journal of Immunology, 2006 Dec 1;177(11):8266-72.

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Chirurgie (DGCH)
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Allgemein- und Viszeralchirurgie (DGAV)
Senior Member of the Academy of Excellence of the DGAV (EA)
Deutsche Transplantationsgesellschaft (DTG)
Deutscher Pankreasclub (DPC)
European Pancreatic Club (EPC)
International Association of Pancreatology (IAP)
Sektion Chirurgische Forschung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Chirurgie (SCF)
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Immunologie (DGfI)
Vereinigung der Bayerischer Chirurgen e.V. (VBC)
Chirurgische Arbeitsgemeinschaft oberer Gastrointestinaltrakt (CAOGI)
Chirurgische Arbeitsgemeinschaft Leber, Galle, Pankreas (CALGP)
Chirurgische Arbeitsgemeinschaft Robotergestützte Chirurgie und Innovation (CA-Robin)
Member of the Study Group Hepatocellular Carcinoma of the Bayerisches Zentrums für Krebsforschung (BZKF)

Selected prizes and awards

2022	Senior Member of the Academy of Excellence of the DGAV
2021	Johann Nepomuk von Nussbaum Prize of the VBC
2019	Travel Grant of the DGAV for Robotic Pancreatic Surgery, USA
2018	Congress President of the 22nd Chirurgische Forschungstage in Erlangen, SCF, DGCH
2016	Von-Langenbeck Prize of the DGCH
2015	Member of the Academy of Excellence of the DGAV
2015	Hugo-Schottmüller Prize of the German Sepsis Society