Medical studies at the University of Munich, Germany, and in France, 1^st state exam. Post-doc at the, Gene Centre of the Max Planck Institute, Martinsried. Resident and house officer in internal medicine and cardiology, Rechts der Isar Clinic and German Heart Center, Munich. Co-founder and chief scientific and medical officer of several biotech companies, one of which was sold to Johnson + Johnson, USA. Professor at the Department of Internal Medicine and Cardiology of the University of Würzburg.