Miriam Erlacher

Principal Investigator

Division of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology
Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine
Medical Center University of Freiburg

Mathildenstr. 1
79106 Freiburg

Current position

Attending physician / Physician scientist / Head of the Coordinating Study Center of EWOG-MDS/SAA, Medical Center University of Freiburg

Academic training

1997 - 2003Studies in Medicine, Leopold-Franzens University Innsbruck, Austria
2000 - 2002MD thesis, Institute of Experimental Pathophysiology and Immunology, Innsbruck Medical University, Austria

Advanced academic qualifications

2007PhD, Innsbruck Medical University, Austria (summa cum laude)
2003Dr. med. univ. (MD), Leopold-Franzens University Innsbruck, Austria

Postgraduate positions

Since 2019Head of the NAMSE B “Center of Inborn and Acquired Blood Diseases”
Since 2018Head of the coordinating study center of EWOG-MDS/SAA
Since 2017Attending physician; Division of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Medical Center University of Freiburg
2015 - 2017Pediatric hematologist and oncologist, Division of Ped. Hematology and Oncology, Medical Center University of Freiburg
2013 - 2015Special training in pediatric hematology and oncology, Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Medical Center University of Freiburg
2006 - 2013Medical training in pediatrics and adolescent medicine, Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, University Medical Center Freiburg
Since 2008Physician scientist, junior group leader, Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, University Medical Center Freiburg
2003 – 2006MD PhD thesis, Division of Developmental Immunology, Innsbruck Medical University, Austria
2006Internship (Tirocinio), Hospital of Sterzing, Italy

Miscellaneous (Honors, Awards)

Since 2019Spokeswomen of the MOTI-VATE program for excellent MD students, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg
Since 2017Prinicipal investigator within the Deutschen Konsortium für Translationale Krebsforschung (DKTK)
Since 2015ERC starting grant for the project “ApoptoMDS”, EU
2013 - 2014Junior fellowship at FRIAS (Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies), University of Freiburg
2013Research prize of the Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Knochenmark- und Blutstammzelltransplantation
Since 2012Principal investigator of the Spemann Graduate School for Biology and Medicine (SGBM), University Freiburg
2009 - 2013Fellowship Margarete von Wrangell-Habilitationsprogramm, Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst in Baden-Württemberg and the European Social Fund
2010Fellowship for the Translational Research Training in Hematology (TRTH), awarded by the European Hematology Association (EHA) and the American Society for Hematology (ASH)
2006Thesis award of the Austrian Society of Allergology and Immunology
2006Sanofi-Aventis-Award

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