Present Position
Professor at the Life Sciences Research Unit, University of Luxembourg
CV overview
Date of Birth: August 24, 1954Nationality: German
2001-03/2013: Chair of Medicine/Cardiology, University of Manchester, UK Head of the ‘European Studies Programme’ , among other senior management roles
1994-07/2001: Associate Professor of Medicine , University Hospital of Wuerzburg, Germany (Internal Medicine, subspecialty: cardiology). Attending physician (‘Oberarzt’ and ‘apl. Professor’) for both cardiological and general medical patients and interventional activities in the catheterisation laboratory, scientific work.
1991: Assistant Professor of Medicine
1989 and 1993 : Speciality accreditation in Internal Medicine and Cardiology, respectively
1982-1990: Training in Internal Medicine and Cardiology at the University Hospitals of Zurich (Profs. Siegenthaler and W. Vetter) and Bonn (Profs. Luederitz and H. Vetter) and training in special interventional techniques at Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, Michigan, USA (Drs. William O’ Neill and Cindy Grines).
1980-81 : Military Service, German Air Force medical corps
1972-79: Medical School training in Mainz, Germany (5 years), Montpellier, France (4th year), and Westminster Medical School, London (final year). German and US qualifying final exam (VQE, Visa qualifying exam for US)
Scientific training with:
M.P. Dierich, Institute of Immunology, Mainz, Germany (MD thesis on complement receptors);
W. Siegenthaler and W. Vetter, Dep. of Medicine, University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland (molecular mechanisms of hypertensive heart disease and early atherosclerosis);
E. Carafoli, Institute of Biochemistry, Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland (calcium transport in the heart);
R.S. Williams, Cardiovascular Division, Dep. of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC (molecular biology of heart failure).
Distinguished Visiting Professor
Natl. University of Singapore, from 11/2007 and offer to head ‘Cardiovascular Research Institute’ in Singapore (declined)
200 Papers
with emphasis on the clinical, translational and molecular aspects of heart disease with wider projects in general molecular biology and genetics
Research stays abroad
covering 20 years in the last 30 years
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