1985-1988
Research assistant in the Department of General Medicine II (Director Prof. H.G. Sieberth) of the RWTH Aachen

1988-1990
Research Fellow, Div. of Vascular Medicine (Chief Prof. V.J. Dzau), Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Harvard Med. School, Boston, USA

1990-1991
Clinical Fellow and Instructor in Medicine, Div. of Cardiovascular Medicine, Beth Israel Hospital (Chief Prof. W. Grossman), Harvard Med. School, Boston, USA

1991-1994
Research assistant at the Department and Outpatient Clinic for General Medicine II (Director Prof. G.A.J. Riegger) of the University of Regensburg

1996-1997
Fellow in Interventional Cardiology, Cardiac Catheterisation Laboratory (Director Prof. I. Palacios), Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Med. School, Boston, USA

1994-1999
Senior physician at the Department and Outpatient Clinic for General Medicine II (Director Prof. G.A.J. Riegger) of the University of Regensburg

2000-2002
Senior physician at the Department and Outpatient Clinic for General Medicine II (Director Prof. G.A.J. Riegger) of the University of Regensburg

2002-2003
Acting Director of the Department of Medicine II, Deputy Chair for the subject of cardiology/angiology, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Lübeck Campus

2003-2012
Director of the Department of Medicine II, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Lübeck Campus

2012-
Director of the Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, German Heart Centre Munich, Ordinary Professor at the Technical University of Munich

• Molecular biology and genetics of heart disease
• Regulation of myocardial growth processes
• Epidemiological and health care aspects of hypertension and coronary heart disease

Circulation Cardiovascular Genetics
European Heart Journal
Clinical and Experimental Hypertension
Cardiovascular Drugs and Therapy
Basic Research in Cardiology
Journal of Molecular Medicine
CardioVasc
Pharmacogenetics and Genomics
J. Hypertension
PLoS ONE

• German Research Foundation, European Society of Cardiology, British Heart Foundation, Nederlandse Hartstichting, German Foundation for Heart Research, Novartis Foundation
• New England Journal of Medicine, Nature, Nature Genetics, Circulation, European Heart Journal and many more.

Memberships

1991-
German Society for General Medicine

1994-
German Society for Cardiovascular Research

1994-
International Society of Hypertension

1995-
Working group “Cardiovascular Molecular Biology and Gene Technology” of the German Society of Cardiology, 2 years as speaker

2002-
German Society for Hypertension, Section Science

2004-2010
Board of Directors German Hypertension League e.V.

2006-2011
Coordinator EU Consortium Cardiogenics

2008-
Coordinator BMBF-NGFN Consortium Atherogenomics

2008-2011
Member of the Project Committee of NGFN-Plus and NGFN-Transfer in the Medical Genome Research Programme

2011-
Member of the German Centre for Cardiovascular Research

1993
Research grant from the Sandoz Foundation for Therapeutic Research

1994
Walter Clawiter Prize of the University of Düsseldorf

1995
Ernst von Leyden Memorial Medal of the Berlin Society for Internal Medicine

1995
Heisenberg Scholarship of the German Research Foundation

2001
Arthur Weber Prize of the German Society of Cardiology

2001
Science Prize of the German Society for Prevention and Rehabilitation

2001
Science Prize of the German Society for Hypertension for Obesity Research

2011
Honorary Award Lecture on Prevention of the German Society for Cardiology – Cardiovascular Research

2008-
Member of the Supervisory Board of the University Hospital Regensburg

Selected publications by Prof. H. Schunkert 2007-2016

1. Samani NJ, Erdmann J, Hall AS, Hengstenberg C, Mangino M, Mayer B, Dixon RJ, Meitinger T, Braund P, Wichmann HE, Barrett JH, Konig IR, Stevens SE, Szymczak S, Tregouet DA, Iles MM, Pahlke F, Pollard H, Lieb W, Cambien F, Fischer M, Ouwehand W, Blankenberg S, Balmforth AJ, Baessler A, Ball SG, Strom TM, Braenne I, Gieger C, Deloukas P, Tobin MD, Ziegler A, Thompson JR, Schunkert H
Genomewide association analysis of coronary artery disease. N Engl J Med 2007;357:443-53 [IF 52,589]

2. Schunkert H, Götz A, Braund P, McGinnis R, Tregouet DA, Mangino M, Linsel-Nitschke P, Cambien F, Hengstenberg C, Stark K, Blankenberg S, Tiret L, Ducimetiere P, Keniry A, Ghori MJ, Schreiber S, El Mokhtari NE, Hall AS, Dixon RJ, Goodall AH, Liptau H, Pollard H, Schwarz DF, Hothorn LA, Wichmann HE, König IR, Fischer M, Meisinger C, Ouwehand W, Deloukas P, Thompson JR, Erdmann J, Ziegler A, Samani NJ.
Repeated replication and a prospective meta-analysis of the association between chromosome 9p21.3 and coronary artery disease. Circulation 2008;117:1675-84 [IF 14,595]

3. Schunkert H, Samani NJ
Elevated C-reactive protein in atherosclerosis-chicken or egg? N Engl J Med 2008;359:1953-5 (Editorial) [IF 50,017]

4. Reppel M, Radke PW, Schunkert H
Quality of life with PCI versus medical therapy in stable coronary disease. N Engl J Med 2008;359:2290-1 (Letter)

5. Erdmann J, Grosshennig A, Braund PS, König IR, Hengstenberg C, Hall AS, Linsel-Nitschke P, Kathiresan S, Wright B, Trégouët DA, Cambien F, Bruse P, Aherrahrou Z, Wagner AK, Stark K, Schwartz SM, Salomaa V, Elosua R, Melander O, Voight BF, O’Donnell CJ, Peltonen L, Siscovick DS, Altshuler D, Merlini PA, Peyvandi F, Bernardinelli L, Ardissino D, Schillert A, Blankenberg S, Zeller T, Wild P, Schwarz DF, Tiret L, Perret C, Schreiber S, El Mokhtari NE, Schäfer A, März W, Renner W, Bugert P, Klüter H, Schrezenmeir J, Rubin D, Ball SG, Balmforth AJ, Wichmann HE, Meitinger T, Fischer M, Meisinger C, Baumert J, Peters A, Ouwehand WH, Deloukas P, Thompson JR, Ziegler A, Samani NJ, Schunkert H
New susceptibility locus for coronary artery disease on chromosome 3q22.3. Nat Genet 2009;41:280-2 [IF 30,259]

6. Samani NJ, Tomaszewski M, Schunkert H
The personal genome-the future of personalised medicine? Lancet 2010;375:1497-8 (Editorial) [IF 28,400]

7. Linsel-Nitschke P, Samani NJ, Schunkert H
Sorting out cholesterol and coronary artery disease. N Engl J Med. 2010;363:2462-3 (short review) [IF 52,589]

8. Schunkert H, König IR, Kathiresan S, Reilly MP, Assimes TL, Holm H, Preuss M, Stewart AFR, Barbalic M, Gieger C, Absher D, Aherrahrou Z, Allayee H, Altshuler D, Anand SS, Andersen K, Anderson JL, Ardissino D, Ball SG, Balmforth AJ, Barnes TA, Becker DM, Becker LC, Berger K, Bis JC, Boekholdt SM, Boerwinkle E, Braund PS, Brown MJ, Burnett MS, Buysschaert J, Ye S, Zeller T, Ziegler A, Cambien F, Goodall AH, Cupples LA, Quertermous T, März W, Hengstenberg C, Blankenberg S, Ouwehand W, Hall AS, Deloukas P, Thompson JR, Stefansson K, Roberts R, Thorsteinsdottir U, O’Donnell CJ, McPherson R, Erdmann J, Samani NJ for the CARDIoGRAM Consortium.
Thirteen novel genetic loci affecting risk of coronary artery disease. Nat Genet 2011;43:333-8

9. The CARDIoGRAMplusC4D Consortium (Schunkert H shared senior author)
Large-scale association analysis identifies new risk loci for coronary artery disease. Nat Genet (in press)

10. Kessler T, Zhang L, Liu Z, Yin X, Huang Y, Wang Y, Fu Y, Mayr M, Ge Q, Xu Q, Zhu Y, Wang X, Schmidt K, de Wit C, Erdmann J, Schunkert H, Aherrahrou Z, Kong W.
ADAMTS-7 inhibits re-endothelialization of injured arteries and promotes vascular remodelling through cleavage of thrombospondin-1. Circulation. 2015 Mar 31;131(13):1191-201. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.114.014072. Epub 2015 Feb 20.
PMID:25712208

11. Zanoni P, Khetarpal SA, Larach DB, Hancock-Cerutti WF, Millar JS, Cuchel M, DerOhannessian S, Kontush A, Surendran P, Saleheen D, Trompet S, Jukema JW, De Craen A, Deloukas P, Sattar N, Ford I, Packard C, Majumder Aa, Alam DS, Di Angelantonio E, Abecasis G, Chowdhury R, Erdmann J, Nordestgaard BG, Nielsen SF, Tybjærg-Hansen A, Schmidt RF, Kuulasmaa K, Liu DJ, Perola M, Blankenberg S, Salomaa V, Männistö S, Amouyel P, Arveiler D, Ferrieres J, Müller-Nurasyid M, Ferrario M, Kee F, Willer CJ, Samani N, Schunkert H, Butterworth AS, Howson JM, Peloso GM, Stitziel NO, Danesh J, Kathiresan S, Rader DJ; CHD Exome+ Consortium; CARDIoGRAM Exome Consortium; Global Lipids Genetics Consortium.
Rare variant in scavenger receptor BI raises HDL cholesterol and increases risk of coronary heart disease. Science. 2016 Mar 11;351(6278):1166-71. doi: 10.1126/science.aad3517. PMID:26965621