Prof. Dr. med. Benjamin Meder

Full Professor (W3) for Precision Digital Health, University Heidelberg

Head of Section for Cardiomyopathies

Deputy Medical Director

Managing Senior Physician

Associate Professor (Priv.-Doz.) of Internal Medicine

Senior Physician

Medical Specialist for Internal Medicine and Cardiology

Free journalist (medicine and science)

Head of Genomic Research at the Department of Internal Medicine III, University Hospital of Heidelberg

Research group leader, Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, Department of Internal Medicine III, University Hospital of Heidelberg

Postdoctoral research fellow in the group for Functional Genomics (Prof. W. Rottbauer), Department of Internal Medicine III, University of Heidelberg

Scientific Assistant, Laboratory of Engineering & Bioinformatics, Perfusion Technologies GmbH

Research doctorate, Department of Cardiology, University Hospital of Freiburg

Medical School, Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg

Else Kröner-Excellence Fellowship

1. Price German Society of Cardiology “Cardio Science Slam”

Winterstein Science Award of the German Heart Foundation

European Society of Cardiology “primus inter pares”

Research fellowship (Young Investigator Award) of the Medical Faculty, University of Heidelberg

Winterstein Science Award of the German Heart Foundation

Best Poster Award, 7th Dutch-German Meeting of the Molecular Cardiology Groups

Scholarship of Bayer Foundations, Leverkusen, Germany

E-fellows scholarship, Munich, Germany

Invited as Fellow of the Walter-Siegenthaler Gesellschaft

Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine

Member ESC Council on Cardiovascular Genomics

Fellow of the Biophysical Society

ESC Working Group on Myocardial and Pericardial Disease

Cardiolinc Consortium Member

Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology (FESC;)

Translational Research Committee Member of the Heart Failure Association

Genomics Proteomics Bioinformatics

Editorial Board Member Frontiers Cardiovascular Medicine.

DGK working group 12 “Cardiomyopathies” – Nucleus member, Speaker 2021 - 2023

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kardiologie – Herz- und Kreislaufforschung e.V.

DGK working group 8 „Genetik und Molekularbiologie kardiovaskulärer Erkrankungen“

Gut-Glut Heidelberg e.V.

Deutscher Fachjournalisten-Verband (German Association of Specialized Journalists)

Speaker eCardiology, German Cardiac Society

Program Coordinator Cardiology Summit of the German Society of Cardiology

Co-Coordinator and member of the Board of Directors Informatics for Life Consortium

Coordinator of the Innovation Alliance “Subgenome Fractionation for High-throughput Sequencing”

Coordinator Cardiomyopathy Group DZHK Registries

Steering committee of the Network for Congenital Heart Diseases

Coordinator Cardiomyopathy Research Board & Institute for Cardiomyopathies Heidelberg (ICH.)

DGK qualification Interventional Cardiology

Kardiomyopathien:

• Dilatative Cardiomyopathie (DCM)
• Linksventrikuläre Noncompaction-Cardiomyopathie (LVNC)
• Arrhytmogene Rechtsventrikuläre Cardiomyopathie (ARVC)
• Tako Tsubo Syndrom

Interventionelle Kardiologie

Kardiomyopathien

Genetik und Epigenetik von Kardiomyopathien

Translationale Biotechnologie

Omics-basierte Biomarker

Cardiac Splicing as a Therapeutic Target (CASTT) (Leducq Foundation)

Sonderforschungsbereich CRC1550 (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft – DFG)

Kausale Modellierung und adaptives experimentelles Design für Einzelzell-Perturbations-Experimente ((Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft – DFG)

AI Health Innovation Cluster Heidelberg (MWK Baden-Württemberg)

Translational Registry for Cardiomyopathies TORCH-Plus (DZHK BMBF)

CARDIATEAM within innovative medicines initiative (IMI, EU and EFPIA)

ActiveDCM interventional Trial (Deutsche Herzstiftung und Apple Inc.)

Regulation of myosin-light chains (DFG)

Informatics for Life (Klaus-Tschira Stiftung)

Hereditary sick sinus syndrome – phenotypic spectrum, genetic basis, cellular dysfunction and implications for therapy (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft – DFG)

Else Kröner-Exzellenz-Stipendium 

HIGHmed (BMBF)

Leben mit Kardiomyopathie (Deutsche Herzstiftung)

ERA-CVD Detectin-HF (EU, BMBF).

Promise (BMBF)

eMed Systems Biology CaRNAtion (BMBF)

Klaus Tschira Foundation

BestAgeing (EU FP7)

“Translational Biotechnology” (Siemens AG)

Innovationsfond FRONTIER “Development of miRNA-based biomarkers” (University of Heidelberg)

INSIGHT DCM (BMBF/EU); INHERITANCE – Genetics of Dilated Cardiomyopathy (EU FP7);

INSIGHT DCM (BMBF/EU); INHERITANCE – Genetics of Dilated Cardiomyopathy (EU FP7);

NGFN Plus project “DNA and Mutation-Screening Platform” (BMBF)

German Center for Cardiovascular Research – DZHK (BMBF)

NGFN Transfer project “Targeted Next-Generation Sequencing” (BMBF)

Start-up of an Excellence Cluster: “Heart and Cancer” (MWK)

Translational Registry for Cardiomyopathies TORCH (DZHK BMBF)

US 61/326,043 Complex miRNA sets as novel biomarkers for an acute coronary syndrome;

EP 10 004 190.4 Complex miRNA sets as novel biomarkers for an acute coronary syndrome;

US 13/642,321 Complex miRNA sets as novel biomarkers for an acute coronary syndrome;

EP 11715666.1 Complex miRNA sets as novel biomarkers for an acute coronary syndrome;

PCT/EP2011/001999 Complex miRNA sets as novel biomarkers for an acute coronary syndrome;

EP 101 851 36.8 Complex miRNS sets as novel biomarkers for an acute coronary syndrome;

EP 11169192.9 MicroRNA signatures als Biomarker für die dilatative Kardiomypathie (DCM) und Herzinsuffizienz; PCT/EP2012/060927 Complex set of miRNAs as noninvasive biomarkers for dilated cardiomyopathy;

13 709 132.8 Epigenetic signatures as markers for cardiomyopathies and myocardial insufficiensies;

PCT/EP2013/055267 Epigenetic signatures as markers for cardiomyopathies and myocardial insufficiensies;

EP12163180.8 Complex sets of miRNAs as non-invasive biomarkers for early diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction;

PCT/EP2013/057118 Complex sets of miRNAs as non-invasive biomarkers for early diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction;

EP 13168684.2 MICRORNA as non-invasive biomarkers for heart failure