Prof. Ulrich Wahn

Professor Wahn began his medical career at the University Children's Hospital in Heidelberg and worked as a research assistant at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg. After completing his paediatric training, he qualified as a sub-specialist in allergology and paediatric pulmonology and completed his habitation at the Medical Faculty in Heidelberg in 1980.

As a scholarship holder of the German Research Foundation (DFG), Professor Wahn did research at the National Institutes of Health (Clinical Immunology Section) in Bethesda, Maryland, USA. As a senior physician and university professor, he moved to the University Children's Clinic in Bochum from 1981 to 1985, and in 1986 he accepted a professorship for Paediatric Pneumology and Immunology at the University Children's Clinic of the Free University of Berlin;

From 1998 to 2012 Professor Wahn was director of the Clinic for Paediatric Pneumology and Immunology at the Charité in Berlin, from 2011 to 2012 he was also director of the allergological and immunological department at Labor Berlin.

Professor Wahn was a member of the Executive Committee of the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (EAACI) for many years, of which he was President from 2003-2005. He has chaired a number of national and international congresses as President, and in 2010 he was appointed Chief Editor of the journal “Paediatric Allergy and Immunology”.

His research interests focus on the epidemiology of childhood asthma, predictors of allergy development and the possibilities of early childhood allergy prevention. Professor Wahn has published over 450 scientific papers in high-ranking international journals and has also worked on over 30 textbooks in various languages. He became an honorary member of the Allergy Society of South Africa (ALLSA), the Czech / Slovak Allergy Society and the Argentine Society for Allergology and Clinical Immunology.

During his professional career, Professor Wahn has received a number of awards including the prestigious Henry Hyde Clinical Award from the World Allergy Association (WAO) in 2003 and the Daniel Bovet Award from the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (EAACI) in 2008. In 2005 he received an Honorary Fellowship from the London Royal College of Physicians (FRCP).

Professor Wahn is currently President of the Clemens von Pirquet Foundation and Vice President of the Prevention and Information Network for Allergy and Asthma (PINA eV). He continues to work as a visiting scientist at the Charité Berlin and is also internationally active as a speaker and consultant for paediatric pneumology and allergology.

Publications

• Over 450 original works
• Editing and collaboration on 30 scientific books from different areas of paediatrics, especially pulmonology, allergology and immunology