Heart attacks, heart valve surgery, stenting of the heart vessels, installation of pacemakers, cardiac arrhythmias, myocardial insufficiency, circulatory disorders and high blood pressure.

Professor Schunkert, having completed his studies in human medicine in 1985, spent the first three years of his career at the RWTH Aachen University. He then had the opportunity to spend a two-year research fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and a one-year clinical fellowship in cardiology and interventional cardiology, respectively, at Beth Israel and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

He was appointed to the faculty of Harvard Medical School as a lecturer in medicine before returning to the University Hospital in Regensburg. In the same place, advanced training for a therapist and a cardiologist took place, as well as calling for recognition as a professor.

In 2002, he was appointed to the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Lübeck, where he headed the second medical clinic for 10 years.

In 2012 prof. Schunkert conducts research in the field of molecular biology and genetics of multifactorial cardiovascular diseases. He is coordinating EU-funded projects as well as a European-American research project that was to investigate the genetic causes of heart attacks. In 2012, he was appointed Director of the Clinic for Cardiovascular Diseases at the German Heart Center Munich and Professor at the Technical University of Munich.

He received scientific awards from the German Society for Cardiology, Hypertension and Prevention and Rehabilitation.

Memberships of the American Federation for Clinical Research, the German Society for Internal Medicine, the German Society of Cardiology and the International Society of Hypertension. Professor Schunkert is on the editorial boards of numerous professional medical journals. He is also a member of the German Center for Cardiovascular Research funded by the BMBF.

He is also a member of the Supervisory Board of the Regensburg University Hospital and has published over 400 publications in international journals.