Full name:

Friedrich Johann Wiebel

Date and place of birth:

February 5, 1938, Marburg/Lahn, Germany

Family status

married, 3 children

1960-1965

University of Tübingen, Wien, Berlin; study of medicine

1965-1967

Internship: 1st. Clinic of Internal Medicine, Free University, Berlin; German Red Cross Hospital, Berlin; Säuglingsheim - Haus Dahlem, Berlin

1966-1967

Research Fellow, Dept. Nuclear Medicine, Free University, Berlin

1967-1969

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Fels Research Institute, Temple University, School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA

1969-1971

Visiting Scientist, Chemistry Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA

1971-1976

Senior Staff Fellow, Carcinogenesis Section, Chemistry Branch, and Project Officer, Contract Programme of the National Cancer Institute, Division of Cancer Cause and Prevention, Bethesda, MD, USA

1976-

Research Scientist, Head of Cell Toxicology Section, Institute of Toxicology GSF-Forschungszentrum für Umwelt und Gesundheit, Neuherberg, Germany (since 2005 Helmholtz Center Munich, German Research Center for Environmental Health)

1985

Teaching positions, Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Technische Universität, München

1990

Deputy Director, GSF-Institute of Toxicology

2000

Acting Director, GSF-Institute of Toxicology

2004

Retirement from GSF-Forschungszentrum and Technische Universität, München

1968

Dr. med., Medical Faculty, Free University, Berlin

1985

Dr. med. habil., Pharmacology and Toxicology, Medical Faculty, Technische Universität, München

1991

Appl. Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Technische Universität, München

Commission F (evaluation of drugs in veterinary medicine) of the Federal Health Office, (since 1993)

Guest of the Commission of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) for the evaluation of hazardous chemicals at the workplace (1994-1998)

Commission on Animal Protection of the Government Oberbayern (1994-1996)

Advisory boards of journals:
- Toxicology (1986-1990)
- Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's Archives of Pharmacology 1991-1998)
- Tobacco Control (1996-2003)

Damon Runyon Memorial Fellowship (1976)

Felix-Wankel Animal Protection Research Prize (1986)

Prix de mérite de la Fondation Internationale Pour la Substitution de
L'Experimentation Animale (1988)

Bundesverdienstkreuz (2001)

Chairman of 'Ärztlicher Arbeitskreis Rauchen und Gesundheit e.V.' (since 1991)

Groupe des 'Organisations de Lutte Contre le Tabac', l'Europe contre le cancer', European Commission, Luxemburg (1991-1996)

Member of 'European Network of Smoking Prevention', Brussels (since 1992), member of the board (1996-1997)

Steering Committee of the German 'Koalition gegen das Rauchen', Bonn (since1993), renamed 'Aktionsbündnis Nichtrauchen' (2002)

Kuratorium, Goethe 'Endowment for Non-Smoking', Goethe-Preis für rauchfreie medizinische Fakultäten, Nordhorn (since 1996)

Chairman of 'Aktionsbündnis Nichtrauchen' (since 2003-2009)

Tobacco Working Group, European Commission, Luxemburg (since 2002-2004)

ASPECT Consortium, Contributor to EU-Report: Tobacco or Health in the European Union. Past, Present and Future (2004)

Expert to WHO Study Group on Tobacco Product Regulation (TobReg) (2004)