Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae
Personal data
Name: Prof. Dr. med. Stefan Frantz
Business address:
Universitätsklinikum Würzburg
Department of Internal Medicine I
Cardiology
Oberdürrbacher Str. 6
97080 Würzburg
Education and Employment
General Education
1976-80
Schools in Stuttgart, Germany and 1978/79 in Paris, France
1980-89
Wittelsbacher Gymnasium (Latin, English, Greek), Munich, Germany (grade 1.0;
best grade to be achieved)
Professional Education
1989-91
University of Regensburg, Germany
1991-94
University of Würzburg, Germany
1994
University of Western Ontario, London, Canada
1994-1996
Dissertation, Universität Würzburg, Deutschland (Note 1, bestmögliche Note),
einschließlich 3-monatigem Wahlfach „Kardiologie“ an der University of Southern
California, Los Angeles in Cardiology.
1996
Thesis “Preservation of left ventricular mechanical function and energy metabolism
in rats after myocardial infarction by the angiotensin-converting-enzyme inhibitor
Quinapril”
1996-97
Internship at the Medizinische Universitätsklinik Würzburg
1998-2000
Cardiovascular Division, Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard
Medical School, molecular biology postdoctoral fellowship in laboratory
of Prof. Ralph Kelly, MD
2000-2007
Resident in Internal Medicine, Medizinische Klinik Würzburg, Germany
Positions and Employment
2005
Board certification for Internal Medicine
2006
Board certification for Cardiology
2006
Habilitation
2007
Board certification for Intensive Care Medicine
2007
Consultant Internal Medicine/ Cardiology, University Hospital Würzburg
2008
Secretary of the Cardiovascular Center Würzburg
2009
Certification for Diabetology (German Diabetes Association
Education and Employment
Positions and Employment (continuation)
2009
2010
Scientific Data
2010
Director Emergency Medicine Department
Implementation and director of the Chest Pain Unit
Scientific Director CHFC (Comprehensive Heart Failure Center) Würzburg
2010
Deputy director Medizinische Klinik und Poliklinik I
2011
Associate professor “Translational Research”
2012
Board of directors IZKF (interdisciplinary center of clinical research) Würzburg
Additional Certifications
2001
Pacemaker („Sachkunde Herzschrittmacher“)
2002
Genetic safety („Sachkunde Gentechnik“)
2003
Radiation safety („Fachkunde Strahlenschutz“)
Scientific Data
Main interests
Heart failure, healing, remodeling and activation of the immune system after myocardial infarction,
ischemia/ reperfusion injury, physiologic and pathologic hypertrophy, heart brain interaction
Funding
1989-96
Bayerische Begabtenförderung
1998-99
Forschungsstipendium of the German Research Foundation (Deutsche
Forschungsgemeinschaft) (Fr 1377/1-1, 60,000€))
2001-2005
German Research Foundation: Funding for a research group, “Innate immunity and
heart failure (Fr 1377/4-1 and 4-3, 390,000€)
2004-2006
IZKF (Interdisciplinary center for clinical research): Funding for “IGF and cardiac
hypertrophy” (300,000€)
2006-present
Sonderforschungsbereich (SFB) of the German Research Foundation, SFB 688TPA10 (620,000€)
2010-12
IZKF (Interdisciplinary center for clinical research): Funding for “Local effects of ANP
after myocardial infarction” (170,000€)
2010-2015
Comprehensive Heart Failure Center Würzburg, IFB (one of five main applicants, 25
mio €)
2013-2015
IZKF „Influence of isoprostanes on vascularisation after myocardial infarction“
Total funding: 27 Mio €
Memberships
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Innere Medizin (German Society of Internal Medicine), Deutsche
Gesellschaft für Kardiologie (German Society of Cardiology), Deutsche Diabetes Gesellschaft (German
Society of Diabetology), American Heart Association, Council on Basic Cardiovascular Science,
European Society of Cardiology, Working Group on Myocardial Function
Scientific Data
Reviewer (Selection)
Circulation, Circulation Research, Cardiovascular Research, Journal of Molecular and Cellular
Cardiology, Basic Research in Cardiology, American Journal of Cardiology
Editorial Board Member
Basic Research in Cardiology
Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology
Awards
2004
New Investigator Award, American Heart Association, Council on Basic Cardiovascular Science
2005
Award of the „Kompetenznetz Herzinsuffizienz”
2013
Arthur Weber Award (highest doted
Clinical Trials, Principle Investigator
2003
VIPER Study (pace maker study)
2004
Safe AC Study (pace maker study)
2010
WAS (Würzburg Obesity Study)
Congress Organization (Selection)
2007/08
Secretary for the meeting of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Innere Medizin 2008
(9000 participants)
2004/ 06/ 08 /10/ 12
International Healing Symposium Würzburg