Professional Experience

• since 01/2025: Head / Chief Physician of the Institute for Clinical Genetics, Brandenburg Medical School Theodor Fontane & University Hospital Brandenburg an der Havel
• 01/2022-12/2024: Deputy Head / Coordinator of the Center for Familial Breast and Ovarian Cancer, University Hospital Halle (Saale) & Medical Director of Human Genetics at MVZ UKH gGmbH
• 01/2014-12/2024: Deputy Director / Senior Consultant of the Institute of Human Genetics, University Hospital Halle (Saale)
• 09/2012-12/2013: Specialist in Human Genetics, Center for Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Section of Pediatric Genetics, University Medical Center Freiburg
• 07/2011-08/2012: Specialist in Human Genetics, Institute for Medical Genetics and Human Genetics & MVZ, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin
• 02/2005-07/2011: Visiting Scientist, Research Group Development and Disease, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics Berlin
• 01/2008-09/2012: Teaching Coordinator of the Institute of Medical Genetics and Human Genetics, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin

University Education

• 02/2005-07/2011: Doctor in postgraduate training in human genetics, Institute of Medical Genetics and Human Genetics, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin
• 01/2004-01/2005: Doctor in postgraduate training in dermatology, Department of Dermatology and Venereology, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin
• 09/2004: Doctorate, Institute for Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Freie Universität Berlin
• 10/1996-12/2003: Study of Human Medicine, Free University of Berlin

Awards

• 2011: Poster prize of the German Society for Human Genetics / GfH e.V.

Plenary Lectures

• 08/2024: Hereditary tumor dispositions in the context of precision oncology and preventive medicine, Symposium for Precision Oncology, KKH UKH & Leopoldina National Academy of Sciences, Halle (Saale)
• 10/2021: DOG Symposium Fr09 Childhood glaucoma – more than just eye pressure reduction, lecture: Clinical-genetic differential diagnostics of childhood glaucoma (online)
• 06/2013: Techniques of genetic diagnostics, 39th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neonatology and Pediatric Intensive Care Medicine (Freiburg i. Br.)

Organization of Conferences and Lecture Series

• 11/2021: Training for cooperation partners of the Center for Familial Breast and Ovarian Cancer at the University Hospital Halle (Saale)
• 06/2016: 53rd Saxon-Thuringian Syndrome Conference – Halle (Saale)
• 2014-2015: Case conferences of the Central German Competence Network for Rare Diseases (contact person for Halle)
• 02/2014: Patient information day, genetics of corneal diseases of the eye, Halle (Saale)

Memberships in Committees (outside the MHB) and Professional Associations

• since 2025: Membership, European Society of Human Genetics /ESHG
• since 2005: Membership, German Society of Human Genetics /GfH e.V.

Third-party Funded Projects (Selection)

• 2023-2024: Coordination of the certification of the FBREK center incl. HerediCaRe registry study at the University Hospital Halle as part of the German Consortium for Familial Breast and Ovarian Cancer (VdEK, BMBF)
• 2018-2021: The Primary Cilium: An Organizing Center of Cellular Energy Homeostasis and Organismal Longevity (Wilhelm-Roux-Funding, MLU Halle-Wittenberg)
• 2014-2016: OTUD3: function and clinical defects in ubiquitin dependent signaling (Wilhelm-Roux-Funding, MLU Halle-Wittenberg)
• 2010-2012: Identification of genetic target factors for corneal tissue engineering (B. Braun Foundation)

Publications (Selection)

Best 5:

• Zachariae S, Quante AS, Kiechle M, Rhiem K, Fehm TN, Schröder JG, Horvath J, Leinert E, Dikow N, Ronez J, Schönfeld M, van Mackelenbergh MT, Schatz UA, Meisel C, Aktas B, Witt D, Mehraein Y, Weber BHF, Solbach C, Speiser D, Hoyer J, Faigle-Krehl G, Much CD, Mueller-Rausch AV, Villavicencio-Lorini P, Banys-Paluchowski M, Pieh D, Schmutzler RK, Fischer C, Engel C. Calculating future 10-year breast cancer risks in risk-adapted surveillance: A method comparison and application in clinical practice. Cancer Prev Res (Phila). 2024 (PMID: 39575650) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39575650/
• Liu H, Ding J, Köhnlein K, Urban N, Ori A, Villavicencio-Lorini P, Walentek P, Klotz LO, Hollemann T, Pfirrmann T. The GID Ubiquitin Ligase Complex is a Regulator of AMPK Activity and Organismal Lifespan. Autophagy. 2020 (PMID: 31795790) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31795790/
• Kraya T, Quandt D, Pfirrmann T, Kindermann A, Lampe L, Schroeter ML, Kohlhase J, Stoevesandt D, Hoffmann K, Villavicencio-Lorini P. Functional characterization of a novel CSF1R mutation causing hereditary diffuse leukoencephalopathy with spheroids. Mol Genet Genomic Med. 2019 (PMID: 30729751) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30729751/
• Pfirrmann T, Emmerich D, Ruokonen P, Quandt D, Buchen R, Fischer-Zirnsak B, Hecht J, Krawitz P, Meyer P, Klopocki E, Stricker S, Lausch E, Seliger B, Hollemann T, Reinhard T, Auw-Haedrich C, Zabel B, Hoffmann K, Villavicencio-Lorini P. Molecular mechanism of CHRDL1-mediated X-linked megalocornea in humans and in Xenopus model. Hum Mol Genet. 2015 (PMID: 25712132) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25712132/
• Villavicencio-Lorini P, Kuss P, Friedrich J, Haupt J, Farooq M, Türkmen S, Duboule D, Hecht J, Mundlos S. Homeobox genes d11-d13 and a13 control mouse autopod cortical bone and joint formation. J Clin Invest. 2010 (PMID: 20458143) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20458143/

More/all Publications:
Pubmed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Villavicencio-Lorini+P+OR+Lorini+P&sort=date
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4906-1539
 
(in the future via MHB research database FactScience)

Photo: Foto in Berlin (N. Karaarslan)