Wiebke Arlt is the Director of the Medical Research Council London Institute of Medical Sciences (MRC LMS) as well as Professor of Transdisciplinary Medicine at Imperial College, London, UK. She previously worked at the University of Birmingham, UK, as MRC Senior Clinical Fellow and William Withering Chair of Medicine, and as founding Director (2015-2022) of the Institute of Metabolism and Systems Research (IMSR).
Wiebke leads a multi-disciplinary research group investigating steroid metabolism and action in health and disease. As a clinician, she cares for patients with adrenal and reproductive disorders, and established clinical endocrine services of excellence recognised at the European level (ENSAT, ENDO-ERN).
Wiebke grew up in Cologne, Germany, where she studied Medicine, Philosophy and Psychology and undertook an academic MD degree in Endocrinology. From 1990-1993, she trained in Neurology and Psychiatry and qualified as psychoanalytical psychotherapist. From 1994-1998, she undertook clinical and academic training in Endocrinology & Diabetes and Internal Medicine at the University of Würzburg. With a DFG Postdoctoral Fellowship, she trained in Molecular Endocrinology at the University of California at San Francisco (1998-2001).
In 2001, she was awarded a DFG Heisenberg Senior Fellowship, which took her to Birmingham, which she subsequently decided to make her home.
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The European Society of Endocrinology (ESE) is at the centre of Europe's endocrine community. Together we work to develop knowledge and share expertise in endocrine science and medicine.
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