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Biography

Philip Wenzel was born July 28th 1976 in Freiburg, Germany. From 1995-2002 he studied medicine in Erlangen, Barcelona and Hamburg. He graduated from medical school in 2002 with A grades and completed his doctoral thesis work in the Institute for Sports medicine in 2003 with magna cum laude in Hamburg. He completed his clinical training at the University Hospital Hamburg Eppendorf and University Medical Center Mainz (UMCM) from 2003 to 2011 (board certification for internal medicine in 2009 and for cardiology in 2011). He was a research fellow and post doc in the lab of Thomas Münzel in 2005/06 and a Junior Group Leader at the Center for Thrombosis in Hemostasis (CTH, director: Prof. Walter) from 2011 to 2014. He currently holds a faculty position at the Center for Cardiology as deputy director (director: Thomas Münzel), double affiliated with the CTH (director: Wolfram Ruf) as Professor for Vascular Inflammation at UMCM.
He published over 100 articles as first, co- or last author (h-index without self citations: 45) and raised >4 Mio € of third party funds (including EU, BMBF and DFG grants).
His research interest is focused on translational aspects of vascular inflammation and oxidative stress, in particular in the context of arterial hypertension and its sequels, such as heart failure, coronary heart disease and myocardial infarction.

Education:
Friedrich Alexander University, Erlangen and Hamburg University, Hamburg, Germany (1995-2002): Graduation from Medical School
Hamburg University, Hamburg, Germany (2003): M.D. title
University Hospital Eppendorf, Hamburg and University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Germany (2003-2009): Board Certification Internal Medicine
University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Germany (2009-2011): Board Certification Cardiology
University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Germany (2015-2017): Board Certification Intensive Care

Professional Experience

2005 - 2006 Postdoctoral Fellow, Molecular Cardiology (PI: Prof. Münzel), University Medical Center Mainz Germany
2011 - 2014 Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Thrombosis and Hemostasis (CTH; PI: Prof. Walter), University Medical Center Mainz Germany
2016 - Professor for Vascular Inflammation (W2, associate professor), Center for Cardiology – Cardiology I and CTH, University Medical Center Mainz Germany
2011 - Senior Physician
2013 DGK Certification “Interventional Cardiologist”
2014 - Member of the Nucleus of DGK AG 4 Vasular Biology
2014 - Principal Investigator of TransMed School, University Medical Center Mainz
2015 - Management of DZHK Shared Expertise SE076
2015 - Member of the Board of Directors, CTH, University Medical Center Mainz
2017 - Principal Investigator of the DZHK (Deutsches Zentrum für Herz- und Kreislaufforschung)
2019 - Deputy Director, Center for Cardiology - Cardiology I
2020 - Head of Heart Failure Unit, University Medical Center Mainz

Honors and Awards

2000 Stipend of the German Chinese Society for Medicine
2008 Travel grant of the Council on Basic Cardiovascular Science of the European Society of Cardiology
2010 Travel Grant of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Innere Medizin
2012 Paul Schölmerich Award for Internal Medicine
2008 and 2017 Robert-Müller-Award
2021 Honorary Professor, CARIM, Maastricht, the Netherlands

Activities

Peer review (29 reviews for 13 publications/grants)

Review activity for Antioxidants. (1)
Review activity for BMJ open. (2)
Review activity for Cardiovascular research. (1)
Review activity for Cellular & molecular immunology (1)
Review activity for Clinical research in cardiology. (12)
Review activity for European heart journal. (3)
Review activity for JHEP reports. (2)
Review activity for Journal of human hypertension (2)
Review activity for Journal of molecular medicine. (1)
Review activity for Nature cardiovascular research. (1)
Review activity for Nature reviews. (1)
Review activity for Nature reviews. (1)
Review activity for PloS one. (1)