Harald Renz

Professor Harald Renz is director and chairman of the Institute of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiochemistry of the Philipps-University Marburg, Germany. He holds this position since 1999. From 2005 up until now he coordinates the inter-regional Research Consortium of Allergies and Asthma, which is funded by the German Research Council; since 2010 he serves as vice-speaker of the Universities of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center (UGMLC), which is one out of 5 sites of the German Lung Center, founded 2012 by the Federal Government. His research interest is the pathogenesis of allergies and asthma.

He has made major contributions in the field of the origin of asthma, with regard to the pre- and postnatal environment. 2012/13 he was Visiting Professor and Fulbright Scholar at Harvard Medical School in Boston. Since 2015 he is Medical Director and CMO of the University Hospital Giessen and Marburg GmbH, Campus Marburg. Also since 2015 he is Vice President of the German Society for Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (DGKL).