Prof. Martin Merkel University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany

Martin Merkel is a senior physician/scientist at Asklepios Clinic St. Georg and at the Department of Biochemistry II, University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf in Hamburg. He received preclinical and clinical training at the medical schools of Rostock, Hamburg, Indiana University and University of Texas in Houston. After medical school and internship he... read morejoined the Laboratory of Biochemical Genetics and Metabolism (Head: Prof. J.L. Breslow) at The Rockefeller University for a postdoctoral position. Besides clinical work at Hamburg University and Asklepios Clinic St. Georg, he has been Head of a scientific group focusing on animal models in lipid metabolism and atherosclerosis since 1999.