Sebastian Mueller, MD, PhD

Professor of Medicine,

CAR and  

Salem Medical Center

University of Heidelberg

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Prof. Sebastian Mueller, M.D., Ph.D.

(currently on Sabbatical leave)

Director, Center for Alcohol Research, University of Heidelberg 

Vice Head. Department of Internal Medicine, Salem Medical Center  

Visiting Professor of The Roger Williams Institute of Hepatology (affiliated to Kings's College London)

Past ESBRA President

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Phone Mo-Fr 8:00-12:00: +49 178 6857419

Email CAR: CAR-HD@web.de

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NEWS 

• First comprehensive book on "Liver elastography: Clinical use and interpretation" by Sebastian Mueller and published by Springer Nature  2020

• New DFG grant to Sebastian Mueller 2020-2023 on iron regulation in alcoholic liver disease

• Prof. Mueller appointed as Visiting Professor of The Roger Williams Institute of Hepatology (affiliated to Kings's College London)

• ESBRA 2021 was successfully held in Timisoara, Romania from  October 7-10 2021 (European Society for Biomedical Research on Alcoholism Conference – 2021 (medevents.ro)

Welcome to our Research Homepage!  

Our research group is located at the  Center for Alcohol Research at the University of Heidelberg.

Addresses:

Otto-Meyerhof-Center

Im Neuenheimer Feld 350, first floor

69120 Heidelberg

Our long term goals are 

• to better understand underlying molecular mechanisms of liver diseases

• to improve diagnosis and therapy of liver diseases 

Actual translational research topics focus on 

• liver diseases

• alcoholic liver disease

• cancer (hepatocellular and colorectal cancer)

• non-invasive diagnosis of liver fibrosis, fatty liver and hepatic iron overload

• fatty liver and steatohepatitis

• non-invasive detection of liver iron

• iron overload disorders

• liver stiffness 

Actual basic research topics are related to

• molecular mechanisms of oxidative stress 

• redox-regulation

• detection of reactive oxygen species

• novel models for oxidative stress and hypoxia

• inflammation and iron homeastasis 

• mechanisms of alcohol-mediated cancerogenesis

• biomechanics and extracellular matrix (fibrosis and cirrhosis)

Our work is presently funded by the DFG, NIH, the Dietmar-Hopp Foundation. 

Additional previous financial supporters: Manfred-Lautenschläger Foundation.

Archived former news:

• Sebastian Mueller elected as the new ESBRA president 2017-2021

• Novel grant from the Dietmar-Hopp foundation granted to Sebastian Mueller on "Longterm survival and alcohol consumption" 2018-2021 

• DFG Grant to Vanessa Rausch und Sebastian Mueller, RA 2677/1-1 'Mechanisms of cancerogenic iron accumulation in alcoholic liver disease (ALD)'. 

• Novel funding on non-invasive assessment of liver iron by room-temperature susceptometry by the Dietmar-Hopp Foundation. 

• Member of the genome-wide case-control study on enetic risk factors for alcoholic cirrhosis" 

• Webinar in 11th MAy 2016 in Paris on alcoholic liver disease and non-invasive fibrosis screening (Youtube link 60 min)

• Novel DFG Grant to Sebastian Mueller, MU 1373/9-1 on a fundamentally novel concept of liver cirrhosis (Mechanisms of sinusoidal pressure-induced liver fibrosis). For information see also here and new hypothesis paper in WJG 2016.