Executive Senior Physician at the department of Cardiology of the Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technical University of Munich, Germany

Work specifics: Physician Scientist

Interventional Cardiologist (PCI, Structural Heart disease) and principal investigator (preclinical studies for gene & cell therapy, gene editing)

Instructed by treating patients presenting with acute myocardial infarction and chronic ischemic heart disease, I put emphasis on treatment of acute and chronic ischemic disease of heart and skeletal muscles via anti-microRNA agents and AAV-based gene therapy. Our AAV vector platform fits well to gene editing studies like correcting Duchenne´s  muscular dystrophy and other forms of inherited cardiomyopathy.  Additional pre-clinical animal models such as hypertrophic heart disease and ischemic heart failure are used to test molecular interventions modulating non-coding RNAs.