Person

Heinz-Peter Schultheiss, Prof. Dr. med.
Professor of Internal Medicine and Cardiology
Date of birth: 28.05.1948
Nationality: German

CEO of Institute for cardiac diagnostic and therapy (IKDT) Berlin
Moltkestr. 31, 12203 Berlin, Germany
em. Chairmen of Cardiovascular Center and Director of the Medical Clinic II (Department of Cardiology and Pulmonology) at Charité University Hospital Berlin, Germany

Phone: +49-30-8441-5550
Email: Heinz-Peter.Schultheiss@charite.de

Positions
-           From 1994-2014 Professor (C4), Head of the Department of Cardiology and Pulmonology at the Benjamin Franklin University Hospital, Freie Universität Berlin, Charité

-           Since 2003 CEO of Institute for Cardiac Diagnostic and Therapy (IKDT) Berlin, Germany

-           1989 –1994 Professor (C3) at Heinrich-Heine-University Hospital, Düsseldorf, Medical Clinic and Policlinic, Department of Cardiology,

Pulmonology and  Angiology
-           1987 – 1989 Heisenberg scholarship

-           1987 – 1989 Senior Cardiologist, Medical Clinic I, University of Munich, Klinikum Großhadern

-           1987 - 1988 Head of the Internal Intensive Care Unit, University Munich, Klinikum Großhadern

-           1980 – 1987 Scientific Assistant, Medical Clinic I, University of Munich, Klinikum Großhadern

-           1978 – 1980 Research grant of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Institut für Physikalische Biochemie,University Munich (Director: Prof. Dr. M. Klingenberg)

-           1976 – 1978 Scientific Assistant, Medical Clinic I, University Munich, Klinikum Großhadern

Grant Support (selection)
-     2016 ERA-CVD Coordinator and PI, ERA-CVD Transnational Call 2016: GENPROVIC  Gene Profiling Test for Identification of Treatable Patients with acute and chronic Heart Failure
-     2017 PI of Funding of the DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research) “Validation of CMR indices for interstitial fibrosis, inflammation and water content with endomyocardial biopsies in patients with nonischaemic cardiomyopathies”
-     2004 – 2014 Speaker, Sonderforschungsbereich SFB/TR 19, Deutsche Forschungsgesellschaft, DCMi – Molecular Pathogenesis and Treatment

• PI Project V1 SFB/TR 19
• PI Project A2, SFB/TR 19, DFG – Matrix Remodeling in DCM
• PI Project Z1, SFB/TR 19, DFG – Differential Diagnosis and Treatment of DCMi
• 2008 – 2011 KMU – Innovative BMBF – Biomarker DNA Chip for DCM Diagnostics

Other Experience and Professional Memberships
Since 1990 - Member of several national and international, scientific and clinical
Societies:

• 1992 - 1994 Chairman of the Working group „Inflammatory heart muscle diseases“ of the German Society of Cardiology
• 1995- 1994 Chairman of the “Working Group on Myocardial and Pericardial Disease“ of the

European Society of Cardiology

• 1991-2000 Member of the nucleus of the “Working Group on Myocardial and Pericardial Disease“ of the European Society of Cardiology
• Since 1989 Member of the „Council on Cardiomyopathies“ of the International

Society of Cardiology

• 1997 - 2000 Chairman of the Medical Society Berlin

Honours (selection)

• 2010 Franz-Loogen-Price
• 1987 Heisenberg Award (German Research Foundation DFG)
• 1986 Theodor-Frerichs-Award (German Society for Internal Medicine DGIM)
• 1981 Young Investigator Award of the European Society of Cardiology

Principal and Co-Investigator of multiple Clinical Studies: 1998 – 2015 (selection)
2003 BICC trial (Beta-Interferon in Chronic Cardiomyopathy)
1999 Bessami Trial
2003 Endeavor 514 Trial
2004 Endeavor Continued Access
2003 Oasis 5 / 6 Trial
2005 Emerald Trail
2005 Frontier Trial
2005 FreRace
2005 Boost 2 bone marrow stem cell therapy
2007 Protect Trial
2011 Absorb Extend
2012 Absorb II

Publications
Number of publications >500 high ranking pubmed listed, several book chapters (Braunwald, Harrison, Schering Foundation, ESC textbook among others).