Thomas Bieber
Prof. Thomas Bieber is Professor of Dermatology and Allergy. He received his degrees in medicine (MD) and biology (PhD in immunology) from the University of Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg, France. He then earned a master’s degree in drug regulatory affairs (MDRA from the University of Bonn), achieving special expertise in preclinical and clinical drug development strategies, as well as in legal and market access aspects of drug development. He has special expertise in translational and precision medicine approaches for skin diseases.
Biography
From 1997 to 2023, he was Chair at the Department of Dermatology and Allergy at the
University of Bonn, Germany. Since 2024, he is guest Professor at the Department of
Dermatology at the University Hospital of Zürich, Switzerland. From 2010 to 2017, he
was chief editor of Allergy, the official journal of the European Academy of Allergy and
Clinical Immunology. He was project leader of the Christine Kühne–Center for Allergy
Research and Education. He founded the non-profit biotech company Davos
Biosciences under the umbrella of the international Kühne-Foundation. He is currently
the scientific director of the medicine programs at the Medicine Campus in Davos,
Switzerland. He is founder of Bieber Dermatology Consulting, a firm specialized in
advising pharmaceutical companies and investors in drug development strategy for
medicinal products in dermatology and allergy.
Prof. Bieber has authored or co-authored more than 660 original publications and
review articles (>51,400 citations; h-index = 107), more than 100 book chapters and
several books on AD and precision medicine. A highly cited researcher by Clarivate and
top 10 cited researchers of the University of Bonn in 2023 and 2024, he is a member
of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.
Among the honors: the distinguished Heisenberg Fellowship from the German
Research Council, the Karl-Hansen-Award from the German Society of Allergy, the
Pharmacia International Research Award, and the Gold Medal of the Foundation for
Allergy Research in Europe. He has been invited to many distinguished lectureships,
such as the Robert Cooke Memorial Lectureship by the American Academy of Allergy,
Asthma and Immunology (USA), the international Dohi Memorial Lecture from the
Japanese Society for Dermatology, the Bruno Bloch Memorial Lectureship from the
University of Zürich (Switzerland), the Karl Herxheimer Memorial Lectureship from the
University of Frankfurt and the Otto Braun-Falco Memorial Lectureship from the
University of Munich (Germany) and the Erich Fuchs award of the Germany Society of
Allergy.
