Welcome Katja Knechtle in our team!

Welcome Katja Knechtle in our team!

Katja will perform her MD thesis in our group dealing with the «Prognostic Value of Non-Traditional Cardiovascular Risk Markers in Women – Data from the Zurich Imaging Biobank (ZIB)».

Editor’s choice || Sex and Gender Differences in Acute Coronary Syndrome || EN

Editor’s choice || Sex and Gender Differences in Acute Coronary Syndrome || EN

We are happy to announce that the European Heart Journal published our review article about «Sex and Gender in Cardiovascular Medicine: Presentation and Outcomes of Acute Coronary Syndrome». We discuss the potential mechanisms and non-traditional risk conditions influencing gender and sex differences in vascular biology, clinical presentation, and outcomes of acute coronary syndrome.

Funding from the Iten-Kohaut Foundation

Funding from the Iten-Kohaut Foundation

Congratulations to Cathérine Gebhard to conduct research on «Gender-Differences in Heart-Brain-Crosstalk: Role of Inflammation, Sympathetic Pathways, and Psychosocial Complexity».

Funding from the Swiss Heart Foundation

Funding from the Swiss Heart Foundation

Congratulations to Susan Bengs on her project «Sex-differences in the Development and Clinical Course of Left Ventricular Hypertrophy: Role of Sex Hormones, Inflammatory Pathways, and Cardiac Sympathetic Activity» funded by the Swiss Heart Foundation.

Welcome in our group, Flavia Diggelmann!

Welcome in our group, Flavia Diggelmann!

Flavia starts her medical doctoral thesis in our group. She will investigate the «Neuronal Stress-Response in Female and Male Patients with Heart Failure».

University Hospital Inselspital Bern

Department of Cardiology
Freiburgstrasse 18
CH-3010 Bern

University Hospital Zurich

Department of Nuclear Medicine
Cardiovascular Gender Medicine
Rämistrasse 100
CH-8091 Zurich

University Hospital Basel

Department of Acute Medicine
Intensive Care Unit
Petersgraben 4
CH-4031 Basel