Clinical career
From 1997 to 2011 Prof. Dr. Jürgen Biederer was resident, fellow, managing senior physician and finally vice director of the Department of Diagnostic Radiology at University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein in Kiel. After having already been in Heidelberg for research activities at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) from 2005 to 2006, he finally changed to University Hospital Heidelberg in 2012. From 2012 to 2013 he worked as a managing senior physician at the department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology of University Hospital Heidelberg, where he is still active until today as researcher in the Section of Pulmonary Radiology. From 2014-2019 he was the head of the Department of Radiology at the County Hospital Groß-Gerau (KK-GG) as part of Radiologie Darmstadt. Since this year (2020) he is the head of the Department of Radiology at the County Hospital Bergstraße (KKB) in Heppenheim.
Scientific career
Prof. Dr. Biederer is engaged in the German Center for Lung Research (DZL) and in imaging cohort studies (COSYCONET). His international network comprises cooperations with institutions in Denver (CO, USA), Edinburgh (UK), Cambridge (UK), Trieste (IT), Riga (LV) and Kiel (DE). Professor Biederer is active in the thorax workshop board at the German Radiology Society (DRG) and in committees of the European Society of Thoracic Imaging (ESTI), the European Society of Radiology (ESR) and the International Workshop for Pulmonary Functional Imaging (IWPFI). He is a member of the editorial board of RöFo (Fortschritte auf dem Gebiet der Röntgenstrahlung) and active reviewer for a number of international journals. On of his favorite fields in research for more than 20 years now is clinical magnetic resonance imaging of the lung using a self-designed experimental environment (ArtiCHEST hybrid phantom).
Experimental and clinical research in diagnostic radiology of the chest using multiple row detector CT and MRI.
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Lung Cancer
1) Biederer J (2023): MR imaging of the airways. Br J Radiol. 3:20220630. doi: 10.1259/bjr.20220630
2) Sodhi KS, Ciet P, Vasanawala S, Biederer J (2021): Practical protocol for lung magnetic resonance imaging and common clinical indications. Pediatr Radiol 26:1–17. doi: 10.1007/s00247-021-05090-z.
3) Biederer J, Ohno Y, Hatabu H, Schiebler ML, van Beek EJR, Vogel-Claussen J, Kauczor H-U (2020): "Screening for lung cancer: Does MRI have a role?” [European Journal of Radiology 86 (2017) 353-360].“ Eur J Radiol 125: 108896
4) Biederer J, Wielpuetz MO, Parraga G, et al (2025) Functional Thoracic MRI: Recent Advances in Pulmonary Assessment. Radiol Cardiothorac Imaging 7:e240492. https://doi.org/10.1148/ryct.240492
5) Nauck S, Pohl M, Jobst BJ, Melzig C, Meredig H, Weinheimer O, Triphan S, von Stackelberg O, Konietzke P, Kauczor HU, Heußel CP, Wielpütz MO, Biederer J on behalf of the COSYCONET Study Group (2024) Phenotyping of COPD with MRI in comparison to same-day CT in a multi-centre trial. Eur Radiol 34:5597-5609. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00330-024-10610-0