Nikolaus Marx, Professor of Medicine/Cardiology and Head of Internal Medicine I, Aachen University, Germany
Nikolaus Marx, born in 1968, was appointed to the above position in 2009. He received his medical training at the Universities of Mainz, Geneva (Switzerland) and Düsseldorf, obtaining his MD in 1994. His thesis on growth regulation in human renal cancer cell lines was completed at the laboratory of Prof. Gerharz at the Institute of Pathology, Mainz University. After a post-doctoral Fellowship with Dr Peter Libby and Dr Jorge Plutzky at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Marx later became a board-certified internist, then cardiologist, before specializing in intensive care medicine in internal medicine at the University of Ulm.
Marx is a member of several organizations in the field of cardiology and diabetes, including the European Society of Cardiology, American Heart Association (AHA), German Diabetes Association, and the European Association for the Study of Diabetes. In addition to reviewing submitted manuscript to numerous journals, including Circulation, Diabetologia, Diabetes, Diabetes Care, The Journal of Immunology, and The Lancet, he is currently Associate Editor for Diabetes and Vascular Disease Research. Marx was awarded the Servier Young Investigators Award in 1999 at the First European Meeting on Vascular Biology and Medicine. More recently, he was the winner of the Poster Award Competition in Epidemiological Science at AHA 2002, the 2004 Morgagni Young Investigator Award, as well as the Rising Star Award 2005 of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD).
He has a longstanding scientific interest in the role of diabetes in vascular disease and the anti-inflammatory role of nuclear receptors in vascular cells. In his new position in Aachen, Marx will pursue his work in this area, extend the established scientific interest of the department in interventional cardiology, and strengthen the research area of non-invasive imaging together with other groups from the technical university of Aachen (RWTH).
Outside of medicine, Marx has a family with a daughter and two sons and is a passionate skier.
