Dr Markus Herrmann
MD
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Dr Markus Herrmann trained as a chemical pathologist at the University Hospital of Saarland in Germany completing his training in 2007 and afterwards continued his work as a consultant specialist at Homburg / Saar.
Parallel to his clinical activities he guided an internationally renowned research group, which became one of the world's leading groups in the field of hyperhomocysteinemia, B-vitamin deficiency and bone disease. His main expertise is in metabolic bone diseases, vitamin B deficiency related diseases and cardiovascular diseases.
He is an author of over 60 scientific publications, book chapters and regularly acts as a reviewer for over 20 international research journals. In addition, he holds a lecturer position at the University of Saarland and is regularly invited as a speaker on international conferences.
Dr Herrmann's interest in metabolic bone diseases, vitamin B deficiency related diseases and cardiovascular diseases began in 2001 when he was a registrar at the Department of Sports and Preventative Medicine at the University of Saarbruecken (Germany). In a comprehensive series of studies he investigated the significance of elevated cardiac biomarkers in athletes. After joining the Department of Clinical Chemsitry and Laboratory Medicine at the University Hospital of Saarland in 2003 he set up his own research group, which soon became highly regarded worldwide. Dr Herrmann and his co-workers were able to demonstrate adverse affects of elevated homocysteine blood levels on bone health via an activation of bone resorbing osteoclasts.
In 2007 Dr Herrmann was awarded a post-doctoral fellowship by the prestigious Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina (Germany) and moved to Australia. He spent the last 2 years at the ANZAC Research Institute in Sydney, where he was working on cellular mechanisms of glucocorticoid induced osteoporosis. During his time at the ANZAC Research Institute Dr Herrmann also gained significant experience with the measurement of steroid hormones, such as vitamin D and corticosterone, by liquid chromatography tandem-mass spectrometry.
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