Prof. Dr. Berthold Huppertz is a German biologist with more than 25 years experience in the medical field. Berthold is chair of a preclinical division as well as Head of the Master course in Biobanking at Medical University of Graz, Austria. For seven years he was Director of Biobank Graz, the largest clinical biobank in Europe. Berthold has published more than 230 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals as well as more than 40 book chapters in scientific and teaching books. With his biological, medical and biobanking background, he loved to work on this book.
Dr. Gramatiuk Svetlana, MD, PhD, is a graduate of the National Medical University of Kharkiv. She studied Biobanking at the Medical University of Graz, Austria, and Infectious Diseases Medicine and Virology, Microbiology and Allergology at the National Medical University of Kharkiv. Dr. Gramatiuk has been practicing since 2004, spending the last 5 years in Kharkiv at the Institute of Cellular Biorehabilitation, which is one of the top 10 regenerative medicine centers in Ukraine. Svetlana specializes in the care of metabolic diseases and oncological patients in her practice. She is also interested in the mitochondrial complex in stem cell and regenerative medicine. In addition, Svetlana is a clinical associate professor of pathophysiology at the Medical Postgraduate Institute.
She then worked as the head of the research laboratory at the Institute of Medical Radiology of Ukraine. In 2017, she was appointed President of the Ukrainian Association of Biobanks. In 2018, she was appointed Assistant Professor of Medicine and Co-Director of the Biobanking Group of the Medical Postgraduate Institute.
Dr. Gramatiuk will soon complete 15 years in academic medicine in Kharkiv and is still training medical students and residents in biobanking, pathophysiology, and infectious diseases. Her main goal is to teach the art and practice of biobanking to ultimately train the best and most caring doctors possible.