Prof. Dr. Heribert Schunkert

Prof. Dr. med. Heribert Schunkert

Director of the Clinic for Cardiovascular Diseases, German Heart Center Munich|TUM University Hospital - Scientific Director DigiMed Bayern

Heribert Schunkert, MD is Professor of Cardiology of the Technische Universität München and Director of the Cardiology Department, German Heart Centre Munich since 2012. He completed a research fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, USA and clinical fellowships at Beth Israel Hospital, the Universitätsklinika Aachen and Regensburg, and the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA, before he became assistant and associate professor in Regensburg. From 2002-2012 Prof. Schunkert was Director of Internal Medicine and Cardiology at the University of Luebeck. He conducts research on the molecular genetics of multifactorial cardiovascular disease, coordinated several EU- and BMBF-sponsored projects as well as the European-American Leducq network CADgenomics to identify the genetic roots of myocardial infarction. He served in the boards of directors in the University Hospital Regensburg and currently in the University Hospital Münster. He is the author of more than 900 publications in international journals.