Professor Dr. med. Matthias Saar

On 1 September 2021, Professor Matthias Saar / Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. Matthias Saar took over as head of the Department of Urology at RWTH Aachen University Hospital. Before this appointment, the professor worked at Saarland University Medical Center, where he obtained his university teaching qualification (habilitation) and, at the same time, a lectureship.

Professor Saar specialises in gentle, minimally invasive and robot-assisted urological surgery. The urology department he heads specialises in the diagnosis and treatment of the full spectrum of diseases of the kidneys and urinary tract, as well as in the surgical, drug-based and conservative treatment of all types of urological tumours. In total, 16 doctors and more than 30 nurses care for and treat patients in the inpatient and outpatient units of Aachen University Hospital.

Awards for outstanding research

Professor Saar's research interests lie in developing new investigative approaches to the diagnosis and treatment of prostate carcinoma. For his research work, the 42-year-old doctor received, among other honours, the German Society of Urology's prize for prostate carcinoma research. As a fellow of the German Society of Urology, in 2011-2012 he spent a year as a postdoctoral researcher at the world-renowned Stanford School of Medicine at Stanford University in California. In 2015, he was awarded a research project prize by the Alois Lauer Foundation for the outstanding results of his translational research and received research funding from the German Research Foundation.