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Heiko Echter von der Leyen (born 2 June 1955 in
Heiko Echter von der Leyen (born 2 June 1955 in Hanover
Hanover (; german: Hannover ; nds, Hannober) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Lower Saxony. Its 535,932 (2021) inhabitants make it the 13th-largest city in Germany as well as the fourth-largest city in Northern Germany ...
) is a German physician
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and member of the noble family
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von der Leyen.
Von der Leyen is married to the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen
Ursula Gertrud von der Leyen (; Albrecht, born 8 October 1958) is a German politician who has been serving as the president of the European Commission since 2019. She served in the German federal government between 2005 and 2019, holding suc ...
.
Since December 2020, he is Medical Director of the company Orgenesis which is specialised in cell and gene therapies.
Life
Born in 1955, the son of physician Ulrich von der Leyen (1918–1992) and his wife Cornelia Maria née Groth (1922–2014), he studied Medicine at theUniversity of Hamburg
The University of Hamburg (german: link=no, Universität Hamburg, also referred to as UHH) is a public research university in Hamburg, Germany. It was founded on 28 March 1919 by combining the previous General Lecture System ('' Allgemeines Vo ...
before pursuing further studies at Hanover Medical School. He joined the faculty of Stanford University from 1992 to 1996. He received his Habilitation doctorate
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at Hanover Medical School in 1998 becoming Adjunct Professor of Internal Medicine and Experimental Cardiology at Hanover Medical School in 2002.
Von der Leyen became the Director of Hanover Clinical Trial Center GmbH in 2005; Hanover Clinical Trial Center (HCTC) is an academic clinical research organization located at the campus of Hanover Medical School.
His family are Lutheran members of the Evangelical Church of Germany
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. Heiko married Ursula née Albrecht in 1986 and they have seven children.
See also
*Ursula von der Leyen
Ursula Gertrud von der Leyen (; Albrecht, born 8 October 1958) is a German politician who has been serving as the president of the European Commission since 2019. She served in the German federal government between 2005 and 2019, holding suc ...
References
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