Jan Weile's Biography

Jan Weile, Project Leader, Institute for Laboratory and Transfusion Medicine at the Heart and Diabetes Centre

- Study of Technical Biology at the University of Stuttgart, Germany (1996-2002)
- PhD thesis „Epidemiologic studies about antibiotic susceptibility and virulence factors in Pseudomonas aeruginosa using DNA-microarray“ at the Robert-Bosch-Hospital and Dr. Margarete Fischer-Bosch Institute for Clinical Pharmacology, Stuttgart, Germany (2002-2005)
- PostDoc at the Dr. Margarete Fischer-Bosch Institute for Clinical Pharmacology at the Robert-Bosch-Hospital in the group of Prof. C. Knabbe (2006-2007) and
- Since 2006 supervisor of forensic DNA-analytics at the Robert-Bosch-Hospital and consultant for the Institute of Legal Medicine at the University of Tübingen, Germany
- Supervisor of the Clinical Microbiology and Molecular Diagnostics section in the Department of Laboratory Medicine at the Robert-Bosch-Hospital (2007-2010)
- Since 2011 Project leader in the Institute for Laboratory and Transfusion Medicine at the Heart- and Diabetes Centre in Bad Oeynhausen, Germany
- Since 2007-present: weekly infectious disease rounds and antibiotic therapy consultant on intensive care and transplantation (STX, HTX) units
- Awards:
o 2011 „Faculty Award Clinical Research“ of the Medical Faculty of the Ruhr-University Bochum for the project: “Multiparametric Infectious Disease Diagnostics”
o 2010 “Innovation Award for Medical Technology” of the German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) for the project: „ FYI-Chip - Integrated Lab-on-a-chip (LOC)-system for rapid diagnosis of yeast- and fungal infections in respiratory specimen and primary sterile body fluids of immunocompromised patients”
o 2009 Scholarship of the Robert Bosch Foundation at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Department of Laboratory Medicine (DLM), Section Clinical Microbiology (Supervisor Patrick Murray, PhD), Bethesda, Maryland, USA (01.04.2009 - 02.5.2009)
o 2006 “ Innovation Award for Medical Technology ” of the German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) for the project: „PCR-free genotyping of fluoroquinolone resistance in E. coli for rapid diagnostic of urinary tract infections”