The past two and a half years, Prof. Dr. Stefan Frantz as Director of the University Clinic and Polyclinic for Internal Medicine III in Halle / Sachsen-Anhalt. At the beginning of April this year, he succeeded Prof. Dr. Georg Ertl in the direction of the Medical Clinic and Polyclinic I of the Uniklinikums Würzburg (VHF). For cardiologists this change is a return. "At this clinic, I began my medical career in 1996 as a doctor in my internship as a medical doctor, remembers the 47-year-old. Würzburg was already his home town, and in 1991 he came here as a student after the physics at the University

The basis for the scientific side of Prof. Frantz was a research stay from 1997 to 2000 at Harvard University in Boston (USA). He reports, "There, for example, I learned the basic laboratory techniques and strategies for developing relevant scientific ideas. I also discovered my interest in the interrelations between the immune system and the heart in Boston. "In addition, Stefan Frantz received the Arthur Weber Prize, the highest-priced honorary award of the German Society of Cardiology - Herz- und Kreislaufforschung eV in 2013 He also studied cardiac insufficiency in his doctoral thesis in 1996. "A topic that I have remained true to this day," as Prof. Frantz notes. Further scientific aspects are the healing processes at the heart after myocardial infarction as well as the effects of metabolic changes in obese patients on heart function. The question as to how the brain and the heart interact with each other also concern the researcher. Co-founder of the German Center for Heart Failure