Em. Prof Ludwig NEYSES

Present Position

Professor at the Life Sciences Research Unit, University of Luxembourg

CV overview

Date of Birth: August 24, 1954Nationality: German

• 2001-03/2013: Chair of Medicine/Cardiology, University of Manchester, UK Head of the ‘European Studies Programme’ , among other senior management roles

• 1994-07/2001: Associate Professor of Medicine , University Hospital of Wuerzburg, Germany (Internal Medicine, subspecialty: cardiology). Attending physician (‘Oberarzt’ and ‘apl. Professor’) for both cardiological and general medical patients and interventional activities in the catheterisation laboratory, scientific work.

• 1991: Assistant Professor of Medicine

• 1989 and 1993 : Speciality accreditation in Internal Medicine and Cardiology, respectively

• 1982-1990: Training in Internal Medicine and Cardiology at the University Hospitals of Zurich (Profs. Siegenthaler and W. Vetter) and Bonn (Profs. Luederitz and H. Vetter) and training in special interventional techniques at Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, Michigan, USA (Drs. William O’ Neill and Cindy Grines).

• 1980-81 : Military Service, German Air Force medical corps

• 1972-79: Medical School training in Mainz, Germany (5 years), Montpellier, France (4th year), and Westminster Medical School, London (final year). German and US qualifying final exam (VQE, Visa qualifying exam for US)

Scientific training with:

• M.P. Dierich, Institute of Immunology, Mainz, Germany (MD thesis on complement receptors);

• W. Siegenthaler and W. Vetter, Dep. of Medicine, University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland (molecular mechanisms of hypertensive heart disease and early atherosclerosis);

• E. Carafoli, Institute of Biochemistry, Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland (calcium transport in the heart);

• R.S. Williams, Cardiovascular Division, Dep. of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC (molecular biology of heart failure).

Distinguished Visiting Professor

Natl. University of Singapore, from 11/2007 and offer to head ‘Cardiovascular Research Institute’ in Singapore (declined)

200 Papers

with emphasis on the clinical, translational and molecular aspects of heart disease with wider projects in general molecular biology and genetics

Research stays abroad

covering 20 years in the last 30 years

Languages

• German (mother tongue)

• French and English at near-native level

• Spanish (advanced)

• Italian (beginner)