Education and Career
Since 2019
Attending physician, Heart Center, University of Freiburg, Germany, Department of Cardiology and Angiology I
Heart failure and Heart transplant
2019
Specialist Emergency medicine
2017
Specialist Internal medicine
since 2017
Leader of the Cardiovascular Pharmacology Research Group Freiburg
2016-2017
Postdoctoral fellow, Institute of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Freiburg, Germany.
Working group of Prof. Dr. Lutz Hein, cardiovascular epigenetics.
2011-2016
Research fellow, Heart Center, University of Freiburg, Germany, Department of Cardiology and Angiology I.
Working group of Prof. Dr. Martin Moser, vascular biology.
2011-2019
Clinical fellow, Heart Center, University of Freiburg, Germany, Department of Cardiology and Angiology I, Prof. Dr. Christoph Bode.
Main interest: Heart failure, acute cardiovascular and intensive care medicine.
2010
German medical licence
2007-2009
Doctoral student, Institute of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Freiburg, Germany, Prof. Dr. Lutz Hein.
Thesis: Influence of mineralocorticoid receptors in cardiac myocytes on cardiac hypertrophy and function (summa cum laude)
2004-2010
Medical school, University of Freiburg, Germany
Scientific activities
- Member of the German Cardiac Society, working group “Genetik und Molekularbiologie kardiovaskulärer Erkrankungen“
- Member of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC), working group “Cellular Biology of the Heart”, and the Heart Failure Association of the ESC
- Member of the European Section of the Aldosterone Council
- Reviewer for Circulation, Cardiovascular Research, Pharmacology & Therapeutics, Journal of Endocrinology, Epigenomics, Thrombosis and Hemostasis, and others
Awards and Fellowships
2019
Betra-Ottenstein Advanced Clinician Scientist Fellowship
2019
Research Award of the Working Group on Heart and Diabetes in the German Cardiac Society
2017
Heart Center Freiburg University Young Investigator Award
2016
Abstract by Lother et al. Cardiac Ly6Chigh Monocyte Accumulation and Remodeling Depend on the Mineralocorticoid Receptor in Endothelial Cells rated as Best of American Heart Association (AHA) Specialty Conferences: Hypertension 2016.
2014
Research advancement award Dresdner Herz-Kreislauf-Tage (Press release)
2012
Fellowship of the European Section of the Aldosterone Council (ESAC Germany)
2012
Top Paper in Hypertension (Basic science category) 2011 for Lother et al. Ablation of mineralocorticoid receptors in myocytes but not in fibroblasts preserves cardiac function. Hypertension. 57:746-54.
2008
Poster prize of the European Section of the Aldosterone Council for the presentation by Lother et al. Gene expression analysis in isolated mouse cardiac myocytes after myocyte-specific MR gene deletion