Hugo A. Katus

Hugo Albert Katus (born November 30, 1951 in Steinfeld ) is a German cardiologist and university professor . He is largely responsible for the development of the troponin test and its translation into clinical routine. Hugo Katus is currently the medical director of the Clinic for Cardiology, Angiology and Pneumology at the Heidelberg University Hospital . From 2016 to 2019 he was President of the German Society for Cardiology .

Career

Hugo A. Katus was born in Steinfeld (Rhineland-Palatinate) and attended elementary school there until 1962 , in 1970 he graduated from the Lender home school in Sasbach . Katus then studied human medicine at the University of Heidelberg and graduated in 1976. In the same year he received his doctorate on Myocardial anaphylaxis - changes in contraction and membrane properties for Dr. med. He then began his clinical work as an assistant doctor in Internal Medicine III (cardiology) at the Heidelberg University Hospital under the direction of Wolfgang Kübler . As a scholarship holder of the German Research Foundation (DFG), Katus spent a research stay at the Massachusetts General Hospital of Harvard Medical School in Boston from 1978 to 1980 , where he first worked on new enzyme markers for heart attack diagnostics in Edgar Haber's laboratory. After his return, he continued his research and clinical training at Heidelberg University Hospital, where he completed his habilitation in 1987. In 1996 he was offered a C4 professorship for internal medicine at the University Hospital in Lübeck, combined with the medical management of the Medical Clinic II (cardiology, angiology, pulmonology, hemostaseology, psychosomatics). Since 2002, Katus has been medical director of the Clinic for Internal Medicine III (cardiology, angiology, pulmonology) and center spokesman for the medical clinic at Heidelberg University Hospital. In addition, from 2016 to 2019 he was President of the German Society for Cardiology - Heart and Circulatory Research e. V. (DGK) . Hugo Katus is married and has two grown children. Outside the clinic, he is involved in the Rotary Club Heidelberg-Neckar.

Academic work and merit

Katus identified the cardiac troponin T and, together with the Boehringer Mannheim company (now Roche Diagnostics ), developed a measurement method for quantitative determination in the form of an immunoassay. Due to its improved accuracy and sensitivity, the troponin test has been declared the gold standard of infarct diagnostics by the cardiological societies in Europe and the USA and enabled the definition of the so-called non-ST elevation myocardial infarction ( NSTEMI ).

Heidelberg School of Anthropological Medicine

At the ceremonial handover of Ludolf von Krehl's bronze portrait to the clinic in 2017, Hugo Katus explained that despite the enormous medical progress and methodological high-tech, Krehl's concern to see the sick person and not just the disease is still practiced in the clinic be.

Fonts

Hugo A. Katus: Myocardial Anaphylaxis. Changes in contraction and membrane properties , dissertation University of Heidelberg, 1976.
Hugo A. Katus: Diagnosis and determination of the size of acute myocardial infarction using antibody-dependent measurement methods, habilitation thesis University of Heidelberg, 1988.
Hugo A. Katus and Thomas Müller-Tasch, Lutz Frankenstein, Nicole Loßnitzer, Dieter Schellberg, Manfred Nelles, Christian Zugk, Jana Jünger, Bjoern-Andrew Remppis, Wolfgang Herzog : Panic disorder in patients with chronic heart failure , In: Journal of psychosomatic research 64 (2008), 3, pp. 299-303.
Hugo A. Katus and Benjamin Meder, Ioana Barb: Broken Heart. When women's hearts break. In: Ruperto Carola Research Magazine, Heidelberg, No. 10 (2017): Frau & Mann , pp. 67–73. Digitized

Honors

1995 German Industry Innovation Prize (Troponin T)
1997 Arthur Weber Prize of the German Society for Cardiology
1999 Franz Loogen Prize of the Society for Cardiovascular Research Essen
2006 Award to outstanding contribution to Clinical Chemistry from the American Society of Clinical Chemistry
2009 Innovation Prize of the BioRegion Germany
2011 Paul Morawitz Prize of the German Society for Cardiology
2012 European Inventor Award Nomination 2012: “The troponin blood test for diagnose myocardial infarction”
2014 - present Highly Cited Scientist Thomson Reuters Science Report
2019 Gold Medal of the European Society of Cardiology

Video clip

YouTube: Hugo Katus: German Heart Report 2018 , (11:47 min.), Accessed on March 28, 2020.

Individual evidence

↑ CV. (PDF) In: Heidelberg University Hospital website. Retrieved November 2, 2016 .
^ Hugo A. Katus: Myocardial anaphylaxis . 1st edition. Heidelberg, Univ., Diss. Heidelberg 1976 (70 pages).
^ Kerstin Krug: Professor Katus new President of the DGK. In: dgk.org. Retrieved November 29, 2016 .
^ HA Katus, S. Looser, K. Hallermayer, A. Remppis, T. Scheffold: Development and in vitro characterization of a new immunoassay of cardiac troponin T. In: Clinical Chemistry. Volume 38, No. 3, March 1, 1992, pages 386-393.
↑ PMID 1547556 , accessed March 10, 2019.
↑ ZDB catalog: ISSN 0009-9147 , accessed on March 10, 2019.
^ HA Katus, A. Remppis, S. Looser, K. Hallermeier, T. Scheffold: Enzyme linked immuno assay of cardiac troponin T for the detection of acute myocardial infarction in patients. In: Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology. Volume 21, No. 12, December 1, 1989, pages 1349-1353.
↑ PMID 2632816 , accessed March 10, 2019.
↑ ZDB catalog: ISSN 0022-2828 , accessed on March 10, 2019.
^ CW Hamm: Guidelines: Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS) . In: Journal of Cardiology . tape 93 , no. 1 , ISSN 0300-5860 , p. 72-90 , doi : 10.1007 / s00392-004-1064-2 .
↑ Wolfgang U. Eckart : The Heidelberg School of Anthropological Medicine , in: Peter Meusburger and Thomas Schuch, on behalf of the Rector Prof. Dr. Bernhard Eitel : Scientific Atlas of the University of Heidelberg , Bibliotheca Palatina Knittlingen 2011, pages 116 + 117.

personal data
SURNAME	Katus, Hugo A.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Katus, Hugo Albert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German cardiologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	November 30, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH	Steinfeld

[1] CV. (PDF) In: Heidelberg University Hospital website. Retrieved November 2, 2016 .

[2] Hugo A. Katus: Myocardial anaphylaxis . 1st edition. Heidelberg, Univ., Diss. Heidelberg 1976 (70 pages).

[3] Kerstin Krug: Professor Katus new President of the DGK. In: dgk.org. Retrieved November 29, 2016 .

[4] HA Katus, S. Looser, K. Hallermayer, A. Remppis, T. Scheffold: Development and in vitro characterization of a new immunoassay of cardiac troponin T. In: Clinical Chemistry. Volume 38, No. 3, March 1, 1992, pages 386-393.

[5] PMID 1547556 , accessed March 10, 2019.

[6] ZDB catalog: ISSN 0009-9147 , accessed on March 10, 2019.

[7] HA Katus, A. Remppis, S. Looser, K. Hallermeier, T. Scheffold: Enzyme linked immuno assay of cardiac troponin T for the detection of acute myocardial infarction in patients. In: Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology. Volume 21, No. 12, December 1, 1989, pages 1349-1353.

[8] PMID 2632816 , accessed March 10, 2019.

[9] ZDB catalog: ISSN 0022-2828 , accessed on March 10, 2019.

[10] CW Hamm: Guidelines: Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS) . In: Journal of Cardiology . tape 93 , no. 1 , ISSN 0300-5860 , p. 72-90 , doi : 10.1007 / s00392-004-1064-2 .

[11] Wolfgang U. Eckart : The Heidelberg School of Anthropological Medicine , in: Peter Meusburger and Thomas Schuch, on behalf of the Rector Prof. Dr. Bernhard Eitel : Scientific Atlas of the University of Heidelberg , Bibliotheca Palatina Knittlingen 2011, pages 116 + 117.