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Phillip Wenzel, Professor, MD

Deputy Director
University Medical Center Mainz
Mainz, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany

Philip Wenzel, MD is Professor of Medicine and Deputy Director of the Department of Cardiology of the University Medical Center in Mainz, Germany. He was born July 28th 1976 in Freiburg, Germany. From 1995-2002 he studied medicine in Erlangen, Barcelona and Hamburg. He graduated from medical school in 2002 with A grades and completed his doctoral thesis work in the Institute for Sports medicine in 2003 with magna cum laude in Hamburg. Philip Wenzel is Principal Investigator of the German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), Co-Chair of the ISTH Sub-Committee on FXI and the Contact Phase System, Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology and Member of the ESC Grants and Research Committee. In Mainz, he is PI in the Center for Healthy Aging, the International PhD Program of the Institute for Molecular Biology and in a Horizon 2020 funded International Training Network.

Philip Wenzel has promoted 5 PhD students and 15 MD students to graduation, who were awarded with summa cum laude in 1, magna cum laude in 17 and cum laude in 2 of the 15 thesis works.

His research focuses on the role of vascular inflammation in arterial hypertension, venous thromboembolism, myocardial infarction and heart failure, with a particular interest in non-canonical roles of coagulation. Philip Wenzel pursues a translational research effort to validate findings discovered in experimental models in human biomaterial, and vice versa (Wenzel et al., EurHeartJ 2015; Karbach et al., ATVB 2014; Kossmann et al., ScienceTranslatMed 2017; Efentakis et al., EurHeartJ 2022, Garlapati et al., JCI 2023).

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