Manuel Weber is Senior Physician at the Department for Oral- and Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery (Head: Prof. Dr. Dr. Marco Kesting) at the University-Hospital of Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU).

Dr. Dr. Weber graduated in medicine at the University of Regensburg in 2010 and subsequently studied dentistry at the University of Würzburg and Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg until his dental degree in 2015. Since 2012, he has been working at the Department for Oral and Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery in Erlangen, Germany. In 2020 he finished his surgical training as Specialist for Oral- and Maxillofacial Surgery. One main clinical interest is the oncologic surgery of Head-and-Neck tumors with a focus on reconstructive surgery involving free soft- and hard-tissue transfer. Dr. Dr. Weber is coordinator of the Head-and-Neck tumor center of the FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg and a member of the interdisciplinary Center for Skull-Base-Surgery in Erlangen, Germany. His main research focus is on tumor immunology of Head-and-Neck tumors. He also supervises research projects regarding the malignant transformation of oral epithelium and is leading prospective clinical trials. An additional interest is the neoadjuvant immunotherapy of Head-and-Neck tumors. In 2021 he received the “Science Award of the German Society for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (DGMKG)”.  Dr. Dr. Weber published numerous papers regarding Head-and-Neck oncology and is also coordinating national collaborative research projects.