Prof. Dr. med. Wolfgang Poller
Manager of experimental research activities
Clinical training:
- Medical school in Bochum, Göttingen and Essen.
- Specialist in internal medicine and cardiology, working as an interventional cardiologist since 1998.
Clinical and scientific focus:
- Clinical and experimental therapy research in cardiomyopathies and heart failure, genetics and molecular biological diagnostics of cardiovascular diseases, immunopathogenesis and immunomodulatory therapy of myocardial diseases.
- Management of SFB Transregio 19 (2004-2013) ‘Inflammatory Cardiomyopathy’ http://www.sfb-transregio-19.de/
Awards and scholarships:
- Heisenberg fellowship from the German Research Foundation (DFG) 1993-1998, with research work at the Department of Molecular Genetics (Joseph Goldstein and Michael Brown), Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, USA;
- Institute for Biochemistry and Pathobiochemistry, University Hospital Würzburg;
- Institute for Virology, University of Würzburg.
- Professorship in Internal Medicine, Free University of Berlin (1998).
- ‘Best Paper Award’ of the journal Circulation 2010 (first description of RNA interference therapy for severe heart failure)
- Abstract Awards German Society of Internal Medicine, European Society of Cardiology, American Heart Association
