Prof. Dr. Cornelius F. Waller

Dr. Cornelius Waller had his medical training at the University of Tuebingen, Germany, St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London, and the Universitätsspital Zurich, Switzerland from 19830-1990. In the same year, he obtained his medical license and completed his doctoral thesis on “In Vivo validation of image-directed Doppler measurements of superior mesenteric artery blood flow." Between 1990-2000, he completed his medical residency training at the University Hospital of Freiburg, Germany. He also pursued two postdoctoral fellowships at the Department of Molecular Biology at Princeton University, Princeton, USA (1992-1994) and at the Department of Cancer Biology at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, USA (1994). In November 1994, Cornelius Waller continued his residency at the Department of Haematology and Oncology at the University Medical Center Freiburg, Germany. He has board certifications for Internal Medicine (2000), Haematology and General Oncology (2001), and Palliative Care (2007). In 2000, he completed his "Habilitation" on "Mobilization and Purging of Autologous Hematopoietic Stem Cells for Transplantation After High-dose Chemotherapy in Malignant Disease" and was awarded the Academic Teaching License by the University of Freiburg, Germany. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2006. Since 2007 Dr. Waller is an attending physician and responsible coordinator of the Freiburg University Lung Cancer Center. He is also an attending physician for the Urogenital Cancer Center and at the Department of Haematology, Oncology, and Stem Cell Transplantation. He has been an investigator, co-investigator, and principal investigator in numerous clinical trials with a special focus on lung and breast cancer, testicular cancer, supportive care, and biosimilar development since 1994. He is a member of the German Cancer Society, the German Society of Haematology and Oncology, the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO), the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), and the German Society of Internal Medicine.