Up for auction "German Heart Center Berlin" Axel Pries Signed Announcement Dated 1987.

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Axel

Radlach Pries is a German

professor of physiology and, since 2015, Dean of the board of Charité hospital in Berlin, Germany. He is married to the photographer Gina

Elisabeth Pries. In 1979 Pries passed his medical examination at the University of Cologne in

Germany. In the following year, he received his doctoral degree summa cum

laude. Until 1983, he worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow

at the University of Cologne and then moved to the Institute of Physiology of

the Freie Universität Berlin.

In 1990, Pries finished his habilitation and became Associate Professor in

1995. From 1997 to 1998 Axel Pries was employed as Senior Physician for

Anaesthesiology at the German Heart Center Berlin (DHZB). In 1998 he became a

Full professor at the Institute for Physiology of the Freie Universität Berlin

and from 2001 to 2015 Head of the Institute for Physiology of the

Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin. From 1996 to 2011 Pries was General

Secretary of the German Society for Microcirculation and vascular biology, and

General Secretary for the European Society for Microcirculation from 1998 to 2011.

He took various leading roles in the European Society of

Cardiology: from 1998 to 2000 he was the Chairman of the Working

Group on Coronary Pathophysiology and Microcirculation, from 2005 to 2010 and

later from 2012 to 2014 he was a Basic Science Coordinator in the Congress

Programme Committee. From 2010 to 2012 he was the Chairman of the Council on

Basic Cardiovascular Science. He was Chairman of the International Liaison

Committee for Microcirculation from 2006 to 2015. In 2017, he became a member of the Board of the

Alliance for Biomedical Research in Europe, the association of leading biomedical societies

in Europe.From 2018 to 2019 he will be appointed President of the Biomed

Alliance. Since 2015 he is Dean and member of the board of Charité hospital in Berlin, as well as member of the board of the Berlin Institute

of Health (BIH) which he leads as interim CEO since 2018.