Portrait Carolin Lerchenmüller

Carolin Lerchenmüller
Prof. Dr. med.

Attending Physician, Department of Cardiology

Specialties

  • Gender medicine
  • Preventive cardiology
  • Heart failure

Other competencies

Molecular cardiology, data science

Career

Since 2024 Associate Professor of Gender Medicine, Head of the Chair of Gender Medicine, University of Zurich
Since 2024 Senior Physician, Clinic for Cardiology, University Hospital Zurich
Since 2022 Principal Investigator, German Center for Heart and Cardiovascular Research (DZHK)
2017 – 2022 DZHK Scientist, German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK)
2017 – 2024 Research Group Leader, Laboratory for Cardiac Remodeling and Regeneration, Heidelberg University Hospital
2011 – 2024 Specialist training in internal medicine and cardiology (Prof. Hugo A. Katus/ Prof. Norbert Frey), Heidelberg University Hospital
2013 – 2017 Postdoctoral Research Fellow (PI: Prof. Anthony Rosenzweig),Cardiovascular Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Cardiovascular Research Institute Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
2012 Doctorate in medicine (summa cum laude), University of Heidelberg, Thomas Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia

Most important memberships

  • German Society of Cardiology (DGK)
    • Head of Women and Family in Cardiology (Project Group 13)
    • Nucleus member Working Group 31 Cardiac Regeneration
    • Member of the Gender Medicine in Cardiology working group
    • Working group member Cardio-oncology
  • European Society of Cardiology (ESC)
  • American Heart Association member (AHA)

Research focus

  • Gender medicine
  • Molecular cardiology
  • Data Science

Publications

Publications