Petra Kleinbongard#
| Membership Number: | 7537 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BASIC AND CLINICAL TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2026 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.uni-due.de/pathophysio/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-3576-3772 |
| X: | @PKleinbongard |
| Publication Link: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=kleinbongard&sort=date |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2011 - present Deputy Managing Director, Institute for Pathophysiology, University Hospital Essen, University Duisburg-Essen, Germany
- 2008 - 2011 Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Pathophysiology, University Hospital Essen, University Duisburg-Essen / Germany
- 2005 - 2008 Postdoctoral Fellow, CBT (CardioBioTech–group), University Hospital Aachen, RWTH Aachen, Germany
- 2004 Research Fellowship, National Institutes of Health National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Washington, USA
- 2003 - 2004 Postdoctoral Fellow, Laboratory for Cardiology, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Germany
- 1999 - 2003 PhD Student, Laboratory for Cardiology, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Germany
- 1999 Scientific Assistant, Institute of Special Zoology, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
Fields of Scholarship
- Coronary blood flow and myocardial perfusion
- Interorgan communication
- Translational cardiovascular research
- Blood as a carrier of vasoactive and cardioprotective mediators
- Cardioprotection
- Vascular and endothelial function in cardiovascular disease
Honours and Awards
- 2024 „Adjunct Professor“, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
- 2010 Dr. Deichmann-Award “Basic Research”, Essen Live, Essen, Germany
- 2007 W. H. Hauss-Award; Annual Meeting of the Society for Arteriosclerosis Research, Blaubeuren, Germany
- 2006 G. Schettler- Award, Annual Meeting of the Society for Arteriosclerosis Research, Blaubeuren, Germany
- 2005 Science Award, Role of Nitrite in Physiology, Pathophysiology and Therapeutics Meeting, NIH, Washington, USA
- 2004 Young Investigator Cardiovascular Award, CardioVision, Academy of Sciences NRW, Düsseldorf, Germany
- since 2026 Associate editor: JCPT
- since 2021 Associate editor: AJP-Heart and Circulatory Physiology
- 2013 - 2019 Managing editor: Archives of Medical Science
