• Intercellular communication in the myocardium in physiology and disease

• Post-transcriptional mechanisms of cardiomyocyte hypertrophy

• Interorgan communication and comorbidities in heart failure

2021 Chairman of the Working group 8 of the German Cardiac Society

2019 Head of the IRTG School of Angioscience (in the CRC1366)

2019 Member of the elected council of the Medical Faculty Mannheim

2019 Deputy Speaker of the DZHK partner site Heidelberg/Mannheim

2012 Heisenberg professorship (from the German Research Foundation, DFG) for Experimental Cardiology

2011 Sir Hans Krebs Prize (endowed by Ernst-August Schrader)

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