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As a clinical gastroenterologist I mostly see patients with pancreatic disorders ranging from pancreatitis to cancer. My endoscopic skills are put to use when interventions of the pancreas and biliary tract are called for. During my training I repeatedly switched between work at the bedside and bench and spent time in laboratories focusing on pancreatic pathophysiology (at Harvard), cell biology (University of Milano), and molecular biology (Max-Planck-Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried). My research interest parallels the diseases of my patients and my laboratory has focused on the pathogenesis, genetics, and cell biology of pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer. Most of our projects are by design translational. The benefits of serving as a department chairman at the University of Greifswald, whose medical school was founded in 1456, include the opportunity to transfer experimental research results directly into multicentre clinical trials (e.g. the EUROPAC2 trial, NCT00142233)