Professor Christoph J Binder

Christoph J. Binder received his MD from the University of Vienna, Austria, in 1997 and his PhD in Molecular Pathology from the University of California San Diego, USA, in 2002. Following postdoctoral training at the Dept. of Medicine at UCSD, he established his own research group at the Department of Laboratory Medicine at the Medical University of Vienna in 2005. In 2006 he joined the Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences as Principal Investigator and in 2009 was appointed Professor of Atherosclerosis Research at the Medical University of Vienna. Christoph Binder is investigating immune mechanisms of atherosclerosis with a special focus on the role of innate and humoral immunity and how this can be exploited for the treatment of CVD. He is Co-Editor of the Journal Atherosclerosis and Section Editor of Thrombosis & Haemostasis.