Hans-Reiner Figulla

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Hans-Reiner Figulla (2015)

Hans-Reiner Figulla (born July 25, 1949 in Göttingen ) is a German cardiologist , inventor and emeritus university professor .

Life

Figulla studied economics from 1968 to 1970 at the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg and medicine from 1971 to 1976 at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and at the University in Freiburg . Figulla did his doctorate at the Physiological Institute of the University of Freiburg on the subject of the predominant importance of the slow membrane channel for the excitation process of the pacemaker cell with Albrecht Fleckenstein .

In 1977 he was a medical assistant at St. Mary's Health Center in St. Louis , where he received his license to practice medicine . From 1978 to 1980 he worked as a scientific assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Systems Physiology in Dortmund with Dietrich W. Lübbers . From 1980 to 1986 Figulla completed his training as a doctor for internal medicine at the University Medical Center Göttingen . From 1986 to 1988 he was trained as a doctor in the field of cardiology, in the same year also in Göttingen, he did his habilitation in internal medicine. From 1988 to 1997 he was a university professor and senior physician at the Clinic for Internal Medicine / Cardiology and senior physician at the Center for Internal Medicine in Göttingen. In 1997 he was appointed full professor for internal medicine at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena and took over the management of the Clinic for Internal Medicine I (cardiology, angiology , internal intensive care medicine ). In addition to his clinical and scientific work, due to his numerous inventions, he founded Occlutech in 2003 , which sells the Figulla Flex atrial septal occluder worldwide . In 2006 he founded the company JenaValve to develop and sell catheter-guided heart valves. In 2015 he ended his clinical work and has since worked on the further development of catheter - guided heart valves in the start-up company devie medical GmbH, which he founded in 2018 .

In memory of his daughter, who died in 2001, he donated the Charlotte Figulla Prize to promote cosmopolitanism, moral courage and cultural exchange among young people. The prize, endowed with € 1500, has been awarded since 2004.

Honourings and prices

Figulla received the Sven Effert Prize of the German Society for Cardiology in 2011 for his developments and inventions in the field of cardiology. Together with his working group, he won the innovation award of the Federal Ministry for Research and Technology four times . In 2008 he was nominated by the Fraunhofer Society for the German Future Prize.

Writings and patents

A list of 504 papers is available in PubMed . Hans-Reiner Figulla is co-owner of 180 granted patents or patent applications in 9 patent families.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Charlotte Figulla Prize. In: kokont-jena.de. Retrieved July 25, 2020 .
  2. ↑ figulla HR / - Search Results. Retrieved July 25, 2020 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Figulla, Hans-Reiner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cardiologist, inventor and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Goettingen