Prof. Dr. Michael Potente

Short biography Michael Potente
Michael Potente was born in Aachen in 1976 and studied medicine at the universities of Frankfurt and Toronto (Canada). He was already working on blood vessels during his experimental doctoral thesis at the University of Frankfurt, which he completed in 2003. He then worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute for Cardiovascular Regeneration and as a physician at the Clinic for Cardiology at the Goethe University Frankfurt, where he habilitated in internal medicine in 2013. In 2012, he was given his own research group at the Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research in Bad Nauheim.

Potente has already received numerous prizes, including an ERC Starting Grant, an ERC Consolidator Grant and an award as a European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) Young Investigator.

He has published his research results in high-impact journals and is a reviewer for numerous international scientific journals.