PROF. DR. JOHANN BAUERSACHS
Director of the Department of Cardiology and Angiology
- 1993
Thesis (M.D.) at the University of Freiburg, Department of Physiology - 1993 – 1995
Residency and Fellowship in Internal Medicine, University Hospital Frankfurt - 1995 – 1996
Postdoctoral/Research Associate, Physiology, University of Frankfurt - 1996 – 1999
Residency and Fellowship in Internal Medicine, University Hospital Mannheim - 1999 – 2003
Residency and Fellowship in Internal Medicine and Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Würzburg - 1999 – 2004
Scientific Secretary DFG Special Research Program SFB 355 - 2000
Board Certification „Internal Medicine“ - 2002
Board Certification „Cardiology“ - 2001
Habilitation, Member of the Faculty, senior lecturer, Dept. of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, University of Würzburg - 2003 – 2010
Consultant Cardiology/Intensive Care, University Hospital Würzburg - 2006 – 2010
Scientific Secretary DFG Special Research Program SFB 688 - 2008
Board Certification „Intensive Care” - 2008 – 2010
Associate Professor, Dept. of Medicine I, University Hospital Würzburg - 2010
Call for W3-Professorship Cardiology/Angiology, University Hospital Giessen - since 2010
Full Professor and Director, Department of Cardiology and Angiology, Hannover Medical School - since 2014
DGK-Certificate „Additional qualification Interventional Cardiology“ - since 2018
DGK-Certificate „Additional qualification Heart Failure“
- 2001
Oskar-Lapp- Award, „Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kardiologie“ - 2004
Albert-Fraenkel-Award, „Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kardiologie“ - 2006
Parmley-Award, American College of Cardiology - 2012
Bernard and Joan Marshall Distinguished Investigator Award, British Society for Cardiovascular Research - 2016
Honorary member of “Corean Society of Cardiology” - 2018
Paul Morawitz-Award, „Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kardiologie” - 2019
Honorary member of the “Romanian Society of Cardiology” - 2021
Silver Badge of Honour, German Cardiac Society
- PCT/EP2007/008772: microRNA (miRNA) for the diagnosis and treatment of heart diseases
- PCT/EP2009/051986: MicroRNA (miRNA) and downstream targets for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes
Speaker of the Clinical Research Group (KFO) 311, “(Pre-)terminal heart and lung failure – mechanical unloading and repair”(https://www.kfo311.de/), funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft/DFG
- Member of the DFG Cardiovascular Review Board (Fachkollegium Medizin) 2012-2020, Chair 2016-2020
- European Society of Cardiology (ESC), Fellow, Heart Failure Association (HFA) of the ESC, Fellow
Chair of the HFA Study Group Peripartum Cardiomyopathy
HFA Board member 2013-2020, Chair of the HFA Clinical Section 2018-20
Member of the ESC Congress Programme Committee 2014-18, and 2020-2022
Member of the ESC Communication Committee 2020-2022
Chair of the ESC Working Group on Myocardial Function 2012-2014
Member of the ESC Guidelines Task Forces “Management of cardiovascular diseases during pregnancy 2018”, and “Management of acute coronary syndromes in patients presenting without persistent ST-Segment Elevation 2020” German Cardiac Society (DGK), Board Member 2017-23
Member of the Committee on Clinical Cardiovascular Medicine 2017-21, Chair 2019-21
Congress President “DGK Herztage 2018”; Member of the DGK Program Committee 2014-2018
Member of the DGK Program Committee 2014-2018- DIGIT-HF Study (http://digit-hf.de/): “DIGitalis to Improve ouTcomes in patients with advanced chronic Heart Failure, funded by BMBF (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung), Study Chair
- Cardior Pharmaceuticals (www.cardior.de/), Advisory Board Member 2017-21
ESAC Germany (European Section of Aldosterone Council) Association; President
Deputy Editor
European Heart Journal
Associate Editor
Cardiovascular Research, Current Heart Failure Reports
Editorial Board Mitglied
Basic Research in Cardiology, Clinical Research in Cardiology, ESC Heart Failure, Herz – Cardiovascular Diseases
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Deutsche Herzstiftung, INSERM und ANR-Frankreich, Circulation, Circulation Research, Hypertension, JACC, Cardiovascular Research, European Heart Journal, European Journal of Heart Failure, etc
Professor Bauersachs is an interventional cardiologist with special interests in acute coronary syndromes, left ventricular healing and remodelling, acute and chronic heart failure, as well as intensive care. He is particularly interested in the pathophysiology and treatment of peripartum cardiomyopathy, in aldosterone and mineralocorticoid receptor-mediated mechanisms, and the role of non-coding RNAs
Metrics (web of science)
Publications 878
H index 84
Frantz S, Hundertmark M, Schulz-Menger J, Bengel F, Bauersachs J. Left ventricular remodelling post myocardial infarction: pathophysiology, imaging and novel therapies. Eur Heart J. 2022, ehac223. doi: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehac223.
Reboll MR, Klede S, Taft MH, Cai CL, Field LJ, …, van den Heuvel J, Pich A, Bauersachs J, Wu X, Zheng L, Wang Y, Korf-Klingebiel M, Polten F, Wollert KC. Meteorin-like promotes heart repair through endothelial KIT receptor tyrosine kinase. Science 2022;376(6599):1343-1347. doi: 10.1126/science.abn3027.
Chioncel O, Adamo M, Bauersachs J. Risk Stratification in Cardiogenic Shock: from clinical utility to improving outcomes. Eur J Heart Fail. 2022. doi: 10.1002/ejhf.2465. Online ahead of print.
Bauersachs J, de Boer RA, Lindenfeld J, Bozkurt B. The year in cardiovascular medicine 2021: heart failure and cardiomyopathies. Eur Heart J. 2022: 43:367-376. doi: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehab887
Szaroszyk M, Kattih B, Martin-Garrido A, …., Wollert KC, Fielitz J, von Haehling S, Kuhn M, Bauersachs J, Heineke J. Skeletal muscle derived Musclin protects the heart during pathological overload. Nature Communications 2022, 13:149. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-27634-5
Bauersachs J, López-Andrés N. Mineralocorticoid receptor in cardiovascular diseases – Clinical trials and mechanistic insights. Br J Pharmacol. 2021 Oct 13. doi: 10.1111/bph.15708.
Vahanian A, Beyersdorf F, Praz F, Milojevic M, Baldus S, Bauersachs J, Capodanno D, Conradi L, De Bonis M, De Paulis R, Delgado V, …., Tribouilloy C, Wojakowski W. 2021 ESC/EACTS Guidelines for the management of valvular heart disease. Eur Heart J. 2021 doi: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehab395.
Fraccarollo D, Neuser J, Möller J, Riehle C, Galuppo P, Bauersachs J. Expansion of CD10neg neutrophils and CD14+HLA-DRneg/low monocytes driving proinflammatory responses in patients with acute myocardial infarction. Elife. 2021; 10:e66808. doi: 10.7554/eLife.66808.
Cleland JGF, Pfeffer MA, Clark AL, Januzzi JL, McMurray JJV, Mueller C, Pellicori P, Richards M, Teerlink JR, Zannad F, Bauersachs J. The struggle towards a Universal Definition of Heart Failure-how to proceed? Eur Heart J. 2021;42:2331-2343. doi: 10.1093/eurheartj/ ehab082
- Bauersachs J. Heart failure drug therapy – the fantastic four. Eur Heart J. 2021; 42:681-683. doi: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehaa1012.
Diekmann J, Koenig T, Zwadlo C, Derlin T, Neuser J, Thackeray JT, Schäfer A, Ross TL, Bauersachs J, Bengel FM. Molecular Imaging Identifies Fibroblast Activation Beyond the Infarct Region After Acute Myocardial Infarction. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2021;77:1835-1837. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2021.02.019.
Bueno H, Moura B, Lancellotti P, Bauersachs J. The year in cardiovascular medicine 2020: heart failure and cardiomyopathies. Eur Heart J. 2021 Jan 3:ehaa1061. doi: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehaa1061.
- Sliwa K, van der Meer P, Petrie MC, …, Lyon AR, Rosano G, Seferovic PM, Bauersachs J. Risk stratification and management of women with cardiomyopathy/heart failure planning pregnancy or presenting during/after pregnancy: a position statement from the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology Study Group on Peripartum Cardiomyopathy. Eur J Heart Fail. 2021;23):527-540. doi: 10.1002/ejhf.2133.
Täubel J, Hauke W, Rump S, Viereck J, Batkai S, Poetzsch J, Rode L, Weigt H, Genschel C, Lorch U, Theek C, Levin AA, Bauersachs J, Solomon SD, Thum T. Novel antisense therapy targeting microRNA-132 in patients with heart failure: results of a first-in-human Phase 1b randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study. Eur Heart J. 2020 Nov 11:ehaa898. doi: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehaa898.
Collet JP, Thiele H, Barbato E, Barthélémy O, Bauersachs J, Bhatt DL, Dendale P, …., Rutten FH, Sibbing D, Siontis GCM. 2020 ESC Guidelines for the management of acute coronary syndromes in patients presenting without persistent ST-segment elevation. Eur Heart J 2020; doi: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehaa575.
Sliwa K, Petrie MC, van der Meer P, Mebazaa A, Hilfiker-Kleiner D, Jackson AM, Maggioni AP, Laroche C, Regitz-Zagrosek V, …., Ponikowski P, Van Veldhuisen DJ, McMurray J, Bauersachs J. On behalf of the EurObservational Research Programme in conjunction with the HFA of the ESC Study Group on Peripartum Cardiomyopathy. Clinical presentation, management and 6-month outcomes in women with peripartum cardiomyopathy, an ESC EORP registry. Eur Heart J 2020, in press.
Rassaf T, Totzeck M, Backs J, Bokemeyer C, Hallek M, Hilfiker-Kleiner D, Hochhaus A, Lüftner D, Müller OJ, Neudorf U, Pfister R, von Haehling S, Lehmann LH, Bauersachs J. Onco-Cardiology: Consensus Paper of the German Cardiac Society, the German Society for Pediatric Cardiology and Congenital Heart Defects and the German Society for Hematology and Medical Oncology. Clin Res Cardiol. 2020 doi: 10.1007/s00392-020-01636-7.
Moulig V, Pfeffer TJ, Ricke-Hoch M, Schlothauer S, Koenig T, …., Duncker D, Veltmann C, Hilfiker-Kleiner D, Bauersachs J. Long-term follow-up in peripartum cardiomyopathy patients with contemporary treatment: low mortality, high cardiac recovery, but significant cardiovascular co-morbidities. Eur J Heart Fail. 2019; 12:1534-1542. doi: 10.1002/ejhf.1624.
Bauersachs J, König T, van der Meer P, Petrie MC, Hilfiker-Kleiner D, …, Anker SD, Ponikowski P, Seferovic PM, Johnson MR, Mebazaa A, Sliwa K. Pathophysiology, diagnosis and management of peripartum cardiomyopathy: a position statement from the HFA of the ESC Study Group on peripartum cardiomyopathy. Eur J Heart Fail. 2019. doi: 10.1002/ejhf.1493.
Malek Mohammadi M, Kattih B, Grund A, Froese N, Korf-Klingebiel M, Gigina A, Schrameck U, Rudat C, Liang Q, Kispert A, Wollert KC, Bauersachs J, Heineke J. The transcription factor GATA4 promotes myocardial regeneration in neonatal mice. EMBO Mol Med. 2019; 6. pii: e10678. doi: 10.15252/ emmm.201910678.
Bavendiek U, Berliner D, Aguirre Dávila L, …, v. d. Leyen H, Schröder C, Veltmann C, Störk S, Böhm M, Koch A, Bauersachs J. Rationale and design of the DIGIT-HF trial (DIGitoxin to Improve ouTcomes in patients with advanced chronic Heart Failure): a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study. Eur J Heart Fail, 2019 21(5):676-684. doi: 10.1002/ejhf.1452.
Riehle C, Bauersachs J. Small animal models of heart failure. Cardiovasc Res 2019;115(13):1838-1849. doi: 10.1093/cvr/cvz161.
Regitz-Zagrosek V, Roos-Hesselink JW, Bauersachs J, Blomström-Lundqvist C, Cífková R, De Bonis M, Iung B, …, Swan L, Warnes CA. 2018 ESC Guidelines for the management of cardiovascular diseases during pregnancy. Eur Heart J. 2018, 39: 3165-3241. doi: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehy340.
Koehler F, Koehler K, Deckwart O, … Schulze PC, Bauersachs J, Wellge B, Schoebel C, Tajsic M, Dreger H, Anker SD, Stangl K. Efficacy of telemedical interventional management in patients with heart failure (TIM-HF2): a randomised, controlled, parallel-group, unmasked trial. Lancet. 2018 pii: S0140-6736(18)31880-4. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(18)31880-4.
Hilfiker-Kleiner D, Haghikia A, Berliner D, Vogel-Claussen J, Schwab J, ….., Podewski E, Böhm M, Sliwa K, Bauersachs J (2017). Bromocriptine for the Treatment of Peripartum Cardiomyopathy: A Multicenter Randomized Study. Eur Heart J 38, 2671-2679. doi: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehx355.
Wollert KC, Meyer GP, Müller-Ehmsen J, Tschöpe C, ….. Dickstein K, Schultheiss HP, Ladage D, Greulich S, Bauersachs J (2017). Intracoronary autologous bone marrow cell transfer after myocardial infarction: the BOOST-2 randomised placebo-controlled clinical trial. Eur Heart J, doi: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehx188.
Bavendiek U, Aguirre Davila L, Koch A, Bauersachs J (2017). Assumption versus evidence – the case of digoxin in atrial fibrillation and heart failure. Eur Heart J, pii: ehw577. doi: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehw577.
Bauersachs J, Arrigo M, Denise Hilfiker-Kleiner DF, ….., Seferovic P, Tavazzi L, Ruschitzka F, Mebazaa A, Sliwa K (2016). Current management of patients with severe acute peripartum cardiomyopathy: Practical guidance from the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology Study Group on peripartum cardiomyopathy. Eur J Heart Fail 18, 1096-105.
Bauersachs J, Jaisser F, Toto R Mineralocorticoid receptor activation and mineralocorticoid receptor antagonist treatment in cardiac and renal diseases. Hypertension 2015; 65, 257-263.
Hilfiker-Kleiner D, Haghikia A, Nonhoff J, Bauersachs J (2015). Peripartum cardiomyopathy: current management and future perspectives. Eur Heart J, DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehv009.
Zwadlo C, Schmidtmann E, Szaroszyk M, …, Hinz H, Schmitto JD, Widder J, Batkai S, Bähre H, Kaever V, Thum T, Bauersachs J, Heineke J (2015). Anti-androgenic therapy with finasteride attenuates cardiac hypertrophy and left ventricular dysfunction. Circulation, 131:1071-1081.
Fraccarollo D, Berger S, Galuppo P, Kneitz S, Hein L, Schütz G, Frantz S, Ertl G, Bauersachs J. (2011). Deletion of cardiomyocyte mineralocorticoid receptor ameliorates adverse remodeling after myocardial infarction. Circulation 123, 400-408.
Bauersachs J, Thum T (2011). Biogenesis and regulation of cardiovascular microRNAs. Circ Res 109, 334-47.
Thum T, Schmitter K, Fleissner F, Wiebking V, Dietrich B, Widder JD, Jazbutyte V, Hahner S, Ertl G, Bauersachs J (2011). Impairment of endothelial progenitor cell function and vascularization capacity by aldosterone in mice and humans. Eur Heart J 32, 1275-86.
Thum T, Gross C, Fischer T, Fiedler J, Just S, Rottbauer W, Bussen M, Galuppo P, Frantz S, Castoldi M, Muckenthaler M, Soutschek J, Koteliansky V, Rosenwald A, Bauersachs J*, Engelhardt S* (2008). MicroRNA-21 contributes to myocardial disease by stimulating MAP kinase signalling in fibroblasts. Nature 456, 980-984 *joint senior authors.
Fraccarollo D, Widder JD, Galuppo P, Thum T, Hoffmann M, Ruetten H, Ertl G, Bauersachs J (2008). Improvement of left ventricular remodelling by the endothelial nitric oxide synthase enhancer AVE9488 after experimental myocardial infarction. Circulation 118, 818-82.
Thum T, Galuppo P, Wolf C, Fiedler J, Kneitz S, van Laake LW, Doevendans PA, Mummery CL, Borlak J, Haverich A, Gross C, Engelhardt S, Ertl G, Bauersachs J (2007). MicroRNAs in the human heart: A clue to fetal gene reprogramming in heart failure. Circulation 116, 258-267.