Stefanie Dimmeler PhD

Stefanie Dimmeler is Professor of Experimental Medicine and Director of the Institute of Cardiovascular Regeneration, Center for Molecular Medicine at the University of Frankfurt. She undertook her PhD at the University of Konstanz/Germany, and then completed a fellowship in Experimental Surgery at the University of Cologne, and in Molecular Cardiology at the University of Frankfurt. Dr. Dimmeler has received more than 17 awards for her research.

She presented the George E. Brown Memorial Lecture and the Paul Dudley White International Lecture at the Scientific Sessions of the American Heart Association, as well as the Thomas W. Smith Memorial Lecture and the Michael Oliver Memorial Lecture at the British Atherosclerosis Society Autumn Meeting. Her research interests are understanding the basic mechanisms underlying cardiovascular disease and vessel growth, with the aim to develop new cellular and pharmacological therapies for improving the treatment of cardiovascular disease. Ongoing research focuses on epigenetic mechanisms that control cardiovascular repair, specifically non-coding RNAs.