Professor Arnold Von Eckardstein

Arnold von Eckardstein studied medicine and then specialized in laboratory medicine and clinical chemistry. From 2001 until his retirement in 2025, he has been professor at the medical faculty of the University of Zurich and the director of the Institute of Clinical Chemistry of the University Hospital of Zurich (Switzerland; http://www.en.ikc.usz.ch/Pages/default.aspx). His main research interests include risk factors and biomarkers of cardiovascular and metabolic diseases as well as structure, function, and metabolism of high density lipoproteins (HDL) and sphingolipids. He has published more than 550 original and review papers in international peer reviewed scientific journals. Arnold von Eckardstein has served as the Editor-in-Chief of Atherosclerosis . Currently he serves as an Executive Committee Member of the Working Group on Lipids and Atherosclerosis of the Swiss Society of Cardiology.