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Dr. Martin Steinhoff
Professor
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Dr. Martin Steinhoff
Professor
Educational Qualifications
PhD in Human Biology
MD Medicine Thesis
Entity
College of Health and Life Sciences
Biography
Professor Martin Steinhoff is a Professor at Hamad Bin Khalifa University. He is also the Chairman of the Department of Dermatology and Venereology, Director of the Dermatology Institute, and Director of the Translational Research Institute (TRI) at Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC). He is also a Full Professor at Weill Cornell Medical College New York, USA, Weill-Cornell Medicine-Qatar, and Qatar University. He also holds the position of residency program director for dermatology at HMC.
Professor Steinhoff studied medicine and human biology in Germany, where he received his MD, M.Sc., and PhD from the University of Marburg. After his residency in Dermatology/Venereology, he became an Assistant Professor of Dermatology at the University of Muenster in 2002, promoted from assistant to full professor in 6 years.
He holds board certificates in Dermatology, Venereology, Phlebology and Allergy. His clinical fields of interest are inflammatory skin diseases, translational medicine, and -omics technologies. Prof. Steinhoff is an established physician-scientist with a long-standing basic and clinical research background. His group has discovered several mechanisms that are now the basis for new therapies for skin diseases. He is the author of the most relevant textbooks for Dermatology on Skin Inflammation and Allergy.
For his research, Prof Steinhoff received several prestigious international research awards worldwide. He was a member of the board of directors of the European Society of Dermatology Research (ESDR) and an honorary member of several Societies for Dermatology. According to a publication in 2023, he was considered among the Top 1% of dermatologists worldwide.
PhD in Human Biology
University of Marburg, Germany
1997 - 2001
MD Medicine Thesis
University of Marburg, Germany
1986 - 1994
MSc in Human-Biology
University of Marburg, Germany
1990 - 1992
BSc in Biology
Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany
1983 - 1986
- Neuroimmunology, Atopic Dermatitis, Psoriasis, Rosacea
- Systems Medicine, Cell signaling
- Identification of disease biomarkers, and new therapies
Director
Translational Research, Hamad Medical Corporation
2017 - Present
Professor
College of Health and Life Sciences, Hamad Bin Khalifa University
2016 - Present
Chairman
Dermatology, Venerology, Allergy, Hamad Medical Corporation
2016 - Present
Chairman and Director
Dermatology, University College Dublin, Ireland
2014 - 2016
Full Professor
Dermatology, University of California San Francisco, United States
2009 - 2013
Associate Professor
Dermatology, University of Muenster, Germany
2005 - 2011
Assistant Professor
Dermatology, University of Muenster, Germany
2003 - 2005
Scientific University Assistant
Dermatology, University of Muenster, Germany
1999 - 2003
Postdoc (MD)
Neurosciences, Cell Biology, University of California San Francisco, United States
1997 - 1999
AiP & Resident
Dermatology, Venerology, Allergy, University of Goettingen, Germany
1995 - 1997
Postgraduate clinical training (AiP)
Internal Medicine, University of Marburg, Germany
1995
Steinhoff, M., Szabo, I., Schmelz, M., & Oaklander, A. L. (2018). Neuropathic itch. The Lancet Neurology, 17(8), 709–720.
Kido-Nakahara, M., Buddenkotte, J., Kempkes, C., Ikoma, A., Cevikbas, F., Akiyama, T., Nunes, F., Seeliger, S., Hasdemir, B., Mess, C., Buhl, T., Sulk, M., Müller, F.-U., Metze, D., Bunnett, N. W., Bhargava, A., Carstens, E., Furue, M., & Steinhoff, M. (2014). Neural peptidase endothelin-converting enzyme-1 regulates endothelin-1-induced pruritus. Journal of Clinical Investigation, 124(6), 2683–2695.
Cevikbas, F., Wang, X., Akiyama, T., Kempkes, C., Savinko, T., Antal, A., Kukova, G., Buhl, T., Ikoma, A., Buddenkotte, J., Soumelis, V., Feld, M., Alenius, H., Dillon, S. R., Carstens, E., Homey, B., Basbaum, A., & Steinhoff, M. (2014). A sensory neuron-expressed interleukin-31 receptor mediates T-helper cell-dependent itch: Involvement of TRPV1 and TRPA1. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 133(2), 448–460.e7.
Affara, N. I., Ruffell, B., Medler, T. R., Gunderson, A. J., Johansson, M., Bornstein, S., Bergsland, E., Steinhoff, M., Li, Y., Gong, Q., Ma, Y., Wiesen, J. F., Wong, M. H., Kulesz-Martin, M., Irving, B., & Coussens, L. M. (2014). B cells regulate macrophage phenotype and response to chemotherapy in squamous carcinomas. Cancer Cell, 25(6), 809–821.
Steinhoff, M., Vergnolle, N., Young, S. H., Tognetto, M., Amadesi, S., Ennes, H. S., Trevisani, M., Hollenberg, M. D., Wallace, J. L., Caughey, G. H., Mitchell, S. E., Williams, L. M., Geppetti, P., Mayer, E. A., & Bunnett, N. W. (2000). Agonists of proteinase-activated receptor 2 induce inflammation by a neurogenic mechanism. Nature Medicine, 6(2), 151–158.
- 2024; Qatar Foundation QNRF Award Precision Medicine Research, 3 years.
- 2016; SFI-Pfizer Innovation Research Award from Minister of Health, Ireland (Development of biologic) Science Foundation Ireland
- 2011; NIH R01 Research Award, NIAMS (5 years. 3 Mio US $ with overhead), P.I. 8th percentile.
- 2001; Oskar-Gans Main research award, German Society of Dermatology, Berlin, Germany, May 5, 2001 (Protease-activated receptors and neuroinflammation and pruritus).
- 1997; NIH-Scholarship (University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA (Depts. of Physiology & Surgery, Prof. Dr. N. Bunnett), 3 years, NIH grant.