Norbert Wrobel, who lives in Berlin, studied medicine and was licensed as a doctor in 1984. In a broad-based basic university education at the Freie Universität (FU) Berlin, he subsequently specialized in internal medicine, intensive care medicine, emergency medicine and later also in geriatric medicine. Since then he has worked in inpatient hospital treatment. His current research focus is on chronic degenerative diseases of the brain, heart and skeletal muscles.