Stefan D. Anker MD, PhD, FESC

Stefan Anker has been Professor of Tissue Homeostasis in Cardiology and Metabolism at the Berlin-Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapies, an institute of the Charite. He studied medicine in the Faculty of Medicine (Charite) at the Humboldt University of Berlin, where he also earned his doctorate. He then worked as a Clinical Research Fellow at Imperial College London. Back in Germany, he held professorships at the Charite Berlin and Göttingen University Hospital. Anker is a member of the German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK) and Vice-President of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). His core research areas include the mechanisms of tissue metabolism in chronic heart disease and cardio-oncological questions in patients with advanced cancers.