Dieter Hoelzer, MD, PhD, is professor of medicine and hematology at the University of Frankfurt, as well as founder and director of the Onkologikum Frankfurt am Museumsufer, Germany. He received his medical education at the Universities of Münster, Munich, Vienna, and Freiburg. He earned his PhD in clinical physiology.

Dr Hoelzer’s main research area is acute leukemias. He founded the German Adult ALL Study Group, which has conducted 7 multicenter studies in more than 100 participating hospitals. He is also involved in stem cell research and currently participating in a gene therapy trial for chronic granulomatous disease.

Dr Hoelzer served as vice president of the European Society for Clinical Investigation. He is a founder and past president of the European Hematology Association, and current vice president of the European School of Haematology and the European and German leukemia competence networks. Dr Hoelzer is also coordinator of the European Working Group on Adult Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. He is author or co-author of more than 650 peer-reviewed publications, co-author of international textbooks, and author of several monographs.