All University of Oxford members are welcome to attend this seminar.

Networking drinks will follow in the IDRM Cafe from 4-5pm.

About the speaker: 

Stefanie Dimmeler was born in Ravensburg, Germany and she received her undergraduate, graduate, and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Konstanz (Germany). She subsequently completed fellowships in Experimental Surgery at the University of Cologne and in Molecular Cardiology at the University of Frankfurt (Germany). She has been Professor of Experimental Medicine since 2001 and has served as Director of the Institute of Cardiovascular Regeneration at the Center for Molecular Medicine, Goethe University Frankfurt, since 2008. She is also the spokesperson of the Cardiopulmonary Institute (CPI), funded by the Excellence Strategy Program of the German Research Foundation (DFG), and spokesperson of the German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK). In 2023, she received the honorary doctorate from the University of Bern.

She has been invited to speak at more than 300 national and international meetings and seminars, including numerous keynote lectures. She has received more than 30 awards, including the prestigious Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize (DFG) and the Jung Prize for Medicine. She is listed among the Highly Cited Researchers and has been ranked among the top three female scientists in Germany. Her research is supported by DFG collaborative research grants, and she has been awarded three Advanced Investigator Grants from the European Research Council (ERC). In 2026 she received the award of the Federal Cross of Merit in Germany.

Her research group investigates the fundamental mechanisms underlying cardiovascular disease and vascular growth, with the aim of developing new cellular and pharmacological therapies. Current work focuses on the mechanisms regulating cardiovascular repair and aging.