Axel Pries

Axel studied medicine in Cologne and became head of the Charité Institute for Physiology in 2001 working on microcirculation, endothelium, tumor vasculature, blood rheology, and angiogenesis. He chaired the Council for Basic Cardiovascular Science and the basic section of the Congress Programme Committee in the ESC. He was awarded the Malpighi Award of the ESM, the Poiseuille Gold Medal of the Society of Biorheology, and the Silver Medal of the ESC. He was president of the Biomedical Alliance in Europe and CEO of the Berlin Institute of Health. In 2015 he became dean of the Charité and 2021 president of the World Health Summit.