Erland Erdmann#
| Membership Number: | 6917 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLINICAL & VETERINARY SCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2024 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
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| ORCID: | 0000-0002-9887-3736 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2012,10 Professor Emeritus University of Cologne
- since 2010 vice-Chairman of the Ethics Committee of the University of Cologne
- since 2010 Vice -Chairman of the Medical Malpractice-Commission of North Rhine-Wesfalia
- 2006 - 2018 President of the KölnAlumni Association
- 2000 - 2010 Member of the Committee for Research of the Conference of the Presidents of all German Universities
- 2003 - 2004 President of the German Society of Cardiology
- 1997 - 2001 Vice President of the University of Cologne
- 1997 - 2018 Editor of Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift (German Weekly Journal of Medicine)
- 1995 - 2000 Head of the Council of Clinical Cardiology of the German Society of Cardiology
- 1993 - 2012 Professor of Medicine/Cardiology, head of the department of medicine and cardiology at the University of Cologne
- 1984 - 1993 Professor of Medicine and Cardiology at the University of Munich
- 1972 - 1974 Institute of Biochemistry, University of Giessen/Germany, thereafter clinical training at the University of Göttingen.
- 1970 Medical exam and PhD at the University of Göttingen/Germany
- 1965 Medical schools at the Universities of Oxford/UK and Göttingen/Germany
Fields of Scholarship
- Signal transduction in the myocardial cell
- Pathophysiology and treatment options of heart failure
- Central sleep apnea in systolic heart failure
- Affinity of cardiac receptors for various drugs
- The role of diabetes in cardiovascular disease
Honours and Awards
- 2008 Research prize “Fondation pour le development de la cooperation Allemagne-Luxembourg dans le domaine des sciences”
- 2006 Verdienstkreuz 1. Klasse der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (1st Class Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany)
- 1998 Lingen Prize for Pathobiochemical und Pathphysiological Research in Heart Failure
- 1997 Franz Loogen Prize for Cardiovascular Research
- 1994 Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology
- 1992 Smith-Kline-Beecham-Prize for clinical research
- 1988 Member of the New York Academy of Sciences
- 1986 International Fellow of the American Heart Association
- 1977 Fraenkel-Prize for Scientific Research (German Society of Cardiology)
