Urticaria, Vasculitis & Connective Tissue Disease

BIOGRAPHY

ACADEMIC POSITION:
• Professor of Dermatology and Allergy
• Director of Research, Department of Dermatology
• Associate Director Allergie-Centrum-Charité

EDUCATION AND TRAINING:
• MD Freie Universität Berlin (1994)
• Resident, Department of Dermatology, Virchow-Klinikum and Charité, Freie Universität Berlin (1994-1996)
• Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Departments of Pathology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center & Harvard Medical School (1996-1999)
• Tenure-track Investigator & Group leader, Department of Dermatology, University of Mainz (1999-2003)

BOARD CERTIFICATION:
• Board Certification of Dermatology (2001)
• Board Certification of Allergology (2003)

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
• Physiological functions of mast cells, neurogenic inflammation, tolerance
• Pathogenesis and treatment of urticaria, mastocytosis, hereditary angioedema (HAE), autoinflammatory diseases

FACULTY OF 1000:
Dr Maurer joined Faculty of 1000 as a Faculty Member for the Urticaria, Vasculitis & Connective Tissue Disease Section (in the Dermatology Faculty) on June 19th 2007.

On August 19th 2011, following an invitation from Stephen Katz and Georg Stingl (Heads of the Dermatology Faculty), Dr Maurer was appointed as a Section Head for the Urticaria, Vasculitis & Connective Tissue Disease Section.