Prof. Dr. Benjamin Meder

Head Institute for Cardiomyopathies Heidelberg
Deputy Medical Director Department of Cardiology, Angiology and Pneumology

Im Neuenheimer Feld 410 & 669, 69120 Heidelberg

benjamin.meder@med.uni-heidelberg.de

  • Genomics, Precision Medicine, Digital Health, Artificial Intelligence, Epigenetics

  • 2021 Speaker eCardiology of the German Society of Cardiology
    2019 Member ESC Council on Cardiovascular Genomics
    2020 Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine
    2016 Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology (FESC)
    2020 Speaker Working Group Cardiomyopathies of the German Society of Cardiology
    2018 Board of Directors, Informatics for Life, Heidelberg, Germany
    2018 Stanford University School of Medicine, Genome Technology Center, California, USA - Visiting Professor of Genetics
    2018 Board of Directors of “Informatics for Life”, Germany
    2018 Else Kröner-Excellence Fellowship
    2017 Wilhelm P. Winterstein Science Award of the German Heart Foundation
    2011 - 2013 Coordinator of the Innovation Alliance Subgenome Fractionation for High throughput Sequencing, Germany
    2010 Wilhelm P. Winterstein Science Award of the German Heart Foundation

  • 1) Haas J, Mester S, Lai A, Frese KS, Sedaghat-Hamedani F, Kayvanpour E, Rausch T, Nietsch R, Boeckel JN, Carstensen A, Völkers M, Dietrich C, Pils D, Amr A, Holzer DB, Martins Bordalo D, Oehler D, Weis T, Mereles D, Buss S, Riechert E, Wirsz E, Wuerstle M, Korbel JO, Keller A, Katus HA, Posch AE, Meder B. Genomic structural variations lead to dysregulation of important coding and non-coding RNA species in dilated cardiomyopathy. EMBO Mol Med 10:107-120, 2018


    2) Sedaghat-Hamedani F, Haas J, Zhu F, Geier C, Kayvanpour E, Liss M, Lai A, Frese K, Pribe-Wolferts R, Amr A, Li DT, Samani OS, Carstensen A, Bordalo DM, Müller M, Fischer C, Shao J, Wang J, Nie M, Yuan L, Haßfeld S, Schwartz C, Zhou M, Zhou Z, Shu Y, Wang M, Huang K, Zeng Q, Cheng L, Fehlmann T, Ehlermann P, Keller A, Dieterich C, Streckfuß-Bömeke K, Liao Y, Gotthardt M, Katus HA, Meder B. Clinical genetics and outcome of left ventricular non-compaction cardiomyopathy. Eur Heart J 38:3449-60, 2017


    3) Meder B, Haas J, Sedaghat-Hamedani F, Kayvanpour E, Frese K, Lai A, Nietsch R, Scheiner C, Mester S, Martins Bordalo D, Amr A, Dietrich C, Pils D, Siede D, Hund H, Bauer AS, Holzer DB, Ruhparwar A, Mueller-Hennessen M, Weichenhan D, Plass C, Weis TM, Backs J, Wuerstle ML, Keller A, Katus HA, Posch AE. Epigenome-Wide Association Study Identifies Cardiac Gene Patterning and A Novel Class of Biomarkers for Heart Failure. Circulation 136:1528-44, 2017


    4) Haas J, Frese KS, Peil B, Kloos W, Keller A, Nietsch R, Feng Z, Müller S, Kayvanpour E, Vogel B, Sedaghat-Hamedani F, Lim WK, Zhao X, Fradkin D, Köhler D, Fischer S, Franke J, Marquart S, Barb I, Li DT, Amr A, Ehlermann P, Mereles D, Weis T, Hassel S, Kremer A, King V, Wirsz E, Isnard R, Komajda M, Serio A, Grasso M, Syrris P, Wicks E, Plagnol V, Lopes L, Gadgaard T, Eiskjær H, Jørgensen M, Garcia-Giustiniani D, Ortiz-Genga M, Crespo-Leiro MG, Deprez RH, Christiaans I, van Rijsingen IA, Wilde AA, Waldenstrom A, Bolognesi M, Bellazzi R, Mörner S, Bermejo JL, Monserrat L, Villard E, Mogensen J, Pinto YM, Charron P, Elliott P, Arbustini E, Katus HA, Meder B. Atlas of the clinical genetics of human dilated cardiomyopathy. Eur Heart J 36:1123-35a, 2015


    5) Meder B, Rühle F, Weis T, Homuth G, Keller A, Franke J, Peil B, Lorenzo Bermejo J, Frese K, Huge A, Witten A, Vogel B, Haas J, Völker U, Ernst F, Teumer A, Ehlermann P, Zugck C, Friedrichs F, Kroemer H, Dörr M, Hoffmann W, Maisch B, Pankuweit S, Ruppert V, Scheffold T, Kühl U, Schultheiss HP, Kreutz R, Ertl G, Angermann C, Charron P, Villard E, Gary F, Isnard R, Komajda M, Lutz M, Meitinger T, Sinner MF, Wichmann HE, Krawczak M, Ivandic B, Weichenhan D, Gelbrich G, El-Mokhtari NE, Schreiber S, Felix SB, Hasenfuß G, Pfeufer A, Hübner N, Kääb S, Arbustini E, Rottbauer W, Frey N, Stoll M, Katus HA. A genome-wide association study identifies 6p21 as novel risk locus for dilated cardiomyopathy. Eur Heart J 35:1069-77, 2014