Professor Ralph H Knöll

Professor Knöll was recruited to Imperial College as a Professor and Chair of Myocardial Genetics in October 2009 from the Georg August University, Göttingen, Germany, where he was a Professor as well as Head of Working Group in Cardiovascular Molecular Genetics since 2004.  He was a Postgraduate Researcher and then Group Leader at the Institute of Molecular Medicine, UC San Diego, from 1999 to 2004.  He did his professional training at the Max-Planck-Institute of Physiological and Clinical Research, Department of Experimental Cardiology, and was educated at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Medical School, Frankfurt and Justus Liebig University Medical School, Giessen. 

Professor Knöll is a referee for a number of prominent journals, including Circulation, Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, European Journal of Heart Failure, and Clinical Cardiology.  He is also a Member of the European Society of Cardiology, the American Heart Association, and the German Cardiac Society, among others.

He is currently active in several grants, including a German National Research Network (Nationales Genomforschungsnetzes (NGFN)) at the Heart Centre Göttingen Project: "Genetics and functional analysis of cardiac-mechanosensation – Relevance for the pathophysiology of diastolic heart failure" (6/2007 - 5/2012)