Dr. Winter is also deputy director of the Prostate Cancer Center Oldenburg. He graduated with a Doctor of Medicine degree from the Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Germany. After he started his medical residency/consultant training at the Klinikum Augsburg (Germany), he was recruited to the University Hospital for Urology, University Oldenburg. After working in the scientific field of experimental neuropathology, his research works have focused in cancer research, especially in prostate cancer.