Professor
Department of Pathology and Immunology
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Switzerland
Karl-Heinz Krause is Professor of Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine & University Hospitals of Geneva, as well as honorary professor at the Bejing Hospital, China. He received his MD from the Ludwig-Maximilian University (Munich) in 1982. From 1982 to 1989, he received clinical training in internal medicine and infectious diseases at the Universities of Munich, Geneva and Iowa. Starting in 1984, Karl-Heinz Krause has been actively involved in inflammation research. Since 1998, he focused his research further on mechanisms of aging and treatment of age-associated diseases, particularly on the NOX family of NADPH oxidases as a pathophysiologically important source of oxygen radicals. He is an elected member of the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences and the American Society for Clinical Investigation