Torsten Haferlach, MD

Prof. Dr. Dr. Torsten Haferlach is a hematologist hematologist: (hee-muh-TOL-uh-jist) A doctor who specializes in treating blood diseases and disorders of blood producing organs. and a leading expert in the field of leukemia diagnostics and therapy whose research leads to the development of new diagnostic possibilities.
He trained as an internist and hematologist at the university hospitals in Kiel and Göttingen and at the LMU University Hospital in Munich, where he was both senior physician in internal medicine and founder and director of the laboratory for leukemia diagnostics there.
In 2005, he co-established the MLL Munich Leukemia Laboratory, a laboratory that nowadays processes more than 100,000 blood or bone marrow bone marrow: The soft, spongy tissue inside most bones. Blood cells are formed in the bone marrow. samples per year, and more than 4,500 patients are treated in his practice (MHP).