Markus Schwaiger#
| Membership Number: | 6953 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLINICAL & VETERINARY SCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2024 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://badw.de/die-akademie.html |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1991 - 1993 Full Professor, University of Michigan, USA
- 1993 - 2018 Adjunct Professor, University of Michigan, USA
- 1993 - 2017 Director, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technical University of Munich
- 1998 - 2002 Scientific Director of the Institute of Radiology, German Heart Center Munich
- 2016 - 2019 Founding Director of TranslaTUM (Center for Translational Cancer Research), Technical University of Munich
- 2016 - 2021 Medical Director and CEO, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Munich
- 2023 - now President, Bavarian Academy of Sciences
Fields of Scholarship
- Molecular imaging
- Oncology
- Cardiology
- Multimodal imaging
Honours and Awards
- 2002 Distinguished Scientist Award, Academy of Molecular Imaging
- 2002 Henry N. Wagner Lecture, Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Los Angeles
- 2004-now Member of the German National Academy of Sciences „Leopoldina”
- 2005 Georg von Hevesy Medal, Hungarian Society of Nuclear Medicine
- 2005-now Member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences
- 2006 Hermann Blumgart Award
- 2009 Federal Cross of Merit
- 2010 Bavarian Maximilian Medal for Science and Art
- 2011 Paul C. Aebersold Award, Society of Nuclear Medicine
- 2014 Honorary member, Radiological Society of North America
- 2016 Honorary member, Japan Radiological Society
- 2016 Georg von Hevesy Medal, German Society of Nuclear Medicine
- 2017 ESMI Award, European Society for Molecular Imaging
- 2018 Honorary Member, European Association of Nuclear Medicine
- 2019 Honorary Member, European Society for Molecular Imaging
- 2019 Henry N. Wagner Lecture, Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Anaheim
- 2019 Heinz Maier Leibnitz Medal, Technical University of Munich
