Ulrich Laufs is Chief of Cardiology and Interventional Cardiologist at Leipzig University Hospital, as well as Professor of Cardiology at Leipzig University, Germany. After completing his training at the Universities of Bochum and Hamburg, he was resident at the University of Cologne and spent 2 years as post-doctoral researcher at the Cardiovascular Division of the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, USA. Since that time, Professor Laufs has published multiple experimental and clinical studies on the regulation of cardiovascular function by lipoproteins and lipid-modifying medications. Subsequently, he also undertook fellowships at the Universities of Cologne and the Saarland. Before moving to Leipzig in 2017, he was Professor for Clinical and Experimental Medicine and Vice-chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine, Cardiology, Angiology and Intensive Medicine at the University of Saarland in Homburg, Germany.

Professor Laufs heads a research group focused on cellular and molecular mechanisms, and clinical studies of cardiovascular prevention with a special interest in lipid disorders. His group has > 500 publications listed medline that have been cited >363,000 times (H-index 89).

Laufs serves as elected member of the board of the German Society of Cardiology, spokesperson of the D•A•CH-Gesellschaft Herz-Kreislauf-Prävention, member of the federal drug commissions of the German Physicians and German Pharmacists and in several editorial boards of cardiovascular journals. Professor Laufs has received numerous honours, including a first place in the Young Investigator Award of the American College of Cardiology, the Population Sciences Award of the European Society of Cardiology, the Paul Martini Award, and the Albert Fraenkel Award of the German Cardiac Society. He is proud member of the EAS for more than a decade participating in multiple EAS activities including consensus papers, commitees, educational activities and serving as co-chair of the German FH-registry (CaReHigh) and in the progam comitee of the 2023 EAS scientific conference.