Christoph Maack#
| Membership Number: | 7606 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BASIC AND CLINICAL TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2026 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.ukw.de/en/research-comprehensive-heart-failure-center-chfc/research-chfc/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-3694-4559 |
| Publication Link: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Maack+C&page=25&sort=date |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2017 - today Spokesperson of the Comprehensive Heart Failure Center (CHFC), University Clinic Würzburg, Germany
- 2017 - today Chair of the Department for Translational Science, CHFC, University Clinic Würzburg, Germany
- 2012 - 2017 Heisenberg Professor for Cardiovascular Physiology and Bioenergetics at Saarland University, Homburg, Germany; funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)
- 2012 - 2017 Senior physician at the Clinic for Internal Medicine III (Cardiology, Angiology and Intensive Care Medicine; Director: Prof. Dr. Michael Böhm)
- 2006 - 2011 Emmy Noether Research Group Leader, Clinic for Internal Medicine III, Saarland University, Homburg
- 2005 - 2011 Clinical Fellow, Clinic for Internal Medicine III, Saarland University, Homburg ((Director: Prof. Dr. Michael Böhm)
- 2002 - 2005 Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA; Dept. of Cardiology (Lab of Brian O’Rourke, PhD); supported by the Emmy Noether-Programme of the DFG
- 2001 - 2002 Clinical Fellow, Clinic for Internal Medicine III, Saarland University, Homburg, Germany (Director: Prof. Dr. Michael Böhm)
- 2000 Clinical Fellow, Clinic III for Internal Medicine, University of Cologne, Germany (Director: Prof. Dr. Erland Erdmann)
Fields of Scholarship
- Alterations of substrate metabolism in heart failure
- Pathomechanisms of heart failure
- Interplay of mitochondrial function with excitation-contraction coupling (i.e., mechano-energetic coupling)
- Mechanisms of mitochondrial function and dysfunction in aquired and hereditary forms of heart failure
- Hemodynamics and neuroendocrine activation in heart failure
Honours and Awards
- 2025 William C. Stanley Lecture Award (Society for Heart and Vascular Metabolism, SHVM)
- 2024 Silver Badge of Honor of the German Cardiac Society (DGK)
- 2021 Fellow of the International Society for Heart Research (FISHR)
- 2019 Keith Reimer Distinguished Lecture of the International Society for Heart Research (ISHR)
- 2015 Fellow of the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology (FHFA)
- 2015 Arthur-Weber-Award (German Cardiac Society, DGK)
- 2014 Albert-Fraenkel-Award (DGK)
- 2012 Heisenberg Full Professorship (German Research Foundation, DFG)
- 2007 Franz-Maximilian-Groedel-Science Award (DGK)
- 2005 Young Bioenergeticist Award (Biophysical Society)
- 2002 and 2006 Emmy Noether Program (Part I and II; German Research Foundation, DFG)
- 2000 Young Investigator Award of the European Society of Cardiology (Finalist)
