Lukas Heger, MD (he/him/his)

Research Fellow
Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital / Harvard Medical School Department of Cardiology and Angiology University Medical Center, Faculty of Medicine
Rottenburg am Neckar, Germany

Lukas Heger is a MD and Clinical Scientist at the Department of Cardiology and Angiology, Faculty of Medicine, at University Hospital Freiburg in Germany. As a postdoctoral research fellow, funded by a grant from the German research foundation (DFG), he worked in the laboratory of Denisa Wagner at the Harvard Medical University investigating the role of peptidylarginine deiminase 4 (PAD4) and neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) in adverse myocardial remodeling in chronic inflammation. His research group, located at the University Hospital Freiburg, focuses on the interplay between thrombosis and chronic inflammation (thromboinflammation) in cardiac disease, specifically in the development of heart failure.

Presentation(s):

• SOA 06.2 - Inhibition of PAD4 in Immunothrombosis

  Sunday, June 25, 2023
  08:25 – 08:50 ET

• OC 34.1 - Chronic thromboinflammation results in cardiac dysfunction in an experimental mouse model of deep vein thrombosis in a PAD4-dependent manner

  Monday, June 26, 2023
  10:45 – 11:00 ET