Associate Professor Elham Kayvanpour

Associate Professor Elham Kayvanpour

University hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg (Germany)

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Priv.-Doz. Dr. Kayvanpour started her medical studies in Iran. She then moved to Germany and continued her studies in Heidelberg. In 2012 she started her career as a physician scientist in the cardiology department of University Hospital Heidelberg. Her special interests are heart failure and genetic cardiomyopathies. Her research fields are molecular, functional and clinical genetics, computational prediction of clinical therapies, and cardiac biomarkers. Dr. Kayvanpour has been awarded with many prizes and scholarships including “Dres. Majic/Majic-Schlez-Stiftung", "Research Award Dresdner Herz-Kreislauf-Tage", and "DZHK Rotation grant". She won the title “primus inter pares” in the ESC Quiz in 2017.