Gustav Steinhoff
Professor
University Rostock and Medical School Hannover
Germany
Biography
Gustav Steinhoff is known since several years as an expert in the medical field of stem cell therapies. He was the first clinician in 2001 to treat patients with intramyocardial transplantation of purified stem cells and is one of the pioneers of these new therapies. Besides his medical study at the Erasmus University Rotterdam Gustav Steinhoff performed research at the Baylor College in Houston, Texas. He completed his thesis in 1987 and worked as a surgeon at the University of Kiel and the Medical School Hannover, where he was appointed as an Associate Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery in 1998. In 2000 he moved to the University of Rostock as a Director and Chairman of the Department of Cardiac Surgery. There he continued his research on cardiac stem cell therapies and tissue engineering. Publications:>300 Pubmed listed, Textbook: Regenerative Medicine – from Protocol to Patient.
Research Interest
Cardiac Regeneration, Heart Diseases