Simon Philipp Hoerstrup MD, PhD

Dr. Hoerstrup obtained his medical (M.D.) and scientific (Ph.D.) education at Universities in Germany (Cologne), Switzerland (Bern), and the USA (Houston, Baylor College of Medicine and Boston, Harvard Medical School).

After his clinical training in Cardiovascular Surgery at the University Hospital Zurich, he was post-doc research fellow at Children’s Hospital and Massa-chusetts General Hospital, both Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA (1998-2000). In 2001, Dr. Hoerstrup obtained the Venia legendi in Cardiac Surgery at the University of Zürich. Since 2003, he is a Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the Technical University Eindhoven (The Netherlands), and since 2008 Professor of Experimental Surgery at the Medical Faculty of the University of Zurich.