Univ.-Prof. Dr. Andrea Steinbicker

Scientific Career

Since 2024 W3 Professor for Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Director of the Department of Anesthesiology and Operative Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Cologne

2021–2024 W2 Professor for Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Deputy Director of the Department, Goethe University Frankfurt, University Hospital Frankfurt, Head of Operating Room Management

2019–2021 Senior Physician, Department of Anesthesiology, Operative Intensive Care Medicine, and Pain Therapy, University Hospital Münster

2020 Appointed Quality Officer for Hemotherapy at University Hospital Münster

2019 Adjunct Professor (ApL) at the University of Münster

2016 Additional training in “Emergency Medicine” and “Intensive Care Medicine”

2015 Habilitation in Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine with the title “New Findings in the Regulation of Systemic Iron Homeostasis and its Effects on Health and Disease.”

2014 Additional training in palliative medicine

2014-2019 Senior physician at the Clinic for Anesthesiology, Operative Intensive Care Medicine, and Pain Therapy, University Hospital Münster

2012 Designation as “Specialist in Anesthesiology”

2008 Completion of studies: Master of Public Health

2008 Completion of master’s thesis over three months at the World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

2006-2008 Part-time public health studies, University of Applied Sciences Oldenburg/Emden/Ostfriesland, Germany

2005 Doctorate in medicine, title of doctoral thesis: “Cell type-dependent release of nitric oxide and/or reactive nitrogen-oxide species from intracellular SIN-1. Effects on cellular NAD(P)H.” Institute for Physiological Chemistry, University of Duisburg-Essen

Prizes and Honors

2023 Awarded the Manfred Specker Medal by the DGAI for services to young scientists in anesthesiology as a mentor in the mentoring program of the German Society for Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine (DGAI)

2023 Advancement award for concepts to improve the quality of intensive care by the Scientific Association for the Advancement of Intensive Care Medicine (WIVIM e.V.) for the work “The Intensive Care Outpatient Clinic (NIM) for improved long-term care after a stay in the intensive care unit with scientific evaluation within the framework of an OSSE register.”

2023 Admission to the AINSP (Anesthesia, Intensive Care, Emergency, Pain and Palliative Medicine) Training Commission of the German Society for Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine (DGAI)

2021 Admission to the “Anesthesiologists” Commission of the German Society for Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine (DGAI)

2021 Establishment of the Women in Science Network of the Medical Faculty of the University of Münster (WISNeTMed Team)

2019 Research Award of the Interdisciplinary Working Group for Clinical Hemotherapy (IAKH)

2018 Doctoral award from the Medical Faculty of Münster for Niklas Lofruthe, doctoral student of PD Dr. Steinbicker, for “Treatment of anemia of inflammation with intravenous ferric carboxymaltose in a murine anemia model,” graded “summa cum laude plus distinction.”

2018 1st prize in the basic sciences category at the Capital Congress of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine (HAI) in Berlin for “The hemochromatosis protein HFE induces the expression of hepcidin via the BMP receptor ALK3”

2018 2017 Teaching Award from the University of Münster for the Learning Center for Individualized Medical Activity Training and Development (“LIMETTE”)

2017 Awarded the Charlotte Lehmann Research Prize by the Charlotte Lehmann Foundation, presented by the German Society for Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine

2017 First prize for the scientific poster “Homomeric and heteromeric receptor complex formation of bone morphogenetic type I receptors Alk2 and Alk3.” Meeting of the International BioIron Society, Los Angeles, USA

2016 First prize from the Action Alliance for Patient Safety e.V. for the Patient Blood Management project

2015 Admitted to the Young College of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Düsseldorf. Scholarship

2013-2015 Selected as mentor in the “Scientific Working Group for Young Scientists (WAKWIN)” of the German Society for Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, mentee: Dr. Dubravka Kojic

2012-2014 Nominated for and accepted into the “Erstklassig” mentoring program at the University of Münster. Mentors: Prof. Dr. Martina Muckenthaler, EMBL, Heidelberg, and Prof. Dr. Andrea Olschewski, University of Linz

2011 Margrit Krikker Award of the BioIron Society 2011 for the presentation “Liver-specific deletion of Alk2 (ACVR1) or Alk3 (BMPR1a) induces hepcidin deficiency and iron overload in mice” at the BioIron Society Biannual Meeting in Vancouver, Canada

2009-2011 Postdoctoral fellowship, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) at Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

2007-2009 Admission to the “Scientific Working Group for Young Scientists (WAKWIN)” of the German Society for Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, mentor: Prof. Andrea Olschewski

2007-2008 Master’s thesis for the part-time public health program at the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland

2006 Doctoral thesis awarded distinction by the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Duisburg-Essen (summa cum laude with distinction)

2002 First evidence of intracellular nitric oxide generation via molsidomine. Swintek AU, Petrat F, Kirsch M, de Groot H. Institute for Physiological Chemistry, University of Essen. 2nd place at the Science Day of the University of Duisburg-Essen. Essen, Germany. May 2002