Dr. Stefan Ebener is managing an international team of experts for Google Cloud. His passion includes data-driven technologies and the development of technology competencies in companies and society. 

He is also a freelance lecturer in business informatics, a member of the Scientific Society for Market-Oriented Management, belongs to the Institute for IT Management & Digitization at the University of Economics & Management, is a startup mentor, author and keynote speaker.

Heribert Schunkert, MD is Professor of Cardiology of the Technische Universität München and Director of the Cardiology Department, German Heart Centre Munich since 2012. He completed a research fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, USA and clinical fellowships at Beth Israel Hospital, Universitätsklinikum Regensburg, and the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA, before he became assistant and associate professor in Regensburg. From 2002-2012 Prof. Schunkert was Director of Internal Medicine and Cardiology at the University of Luebeck. He conducts research in the molecular genetics of multifactorial cardiovascular disease, coordinates several EU- and BMBF-sponsored projects as well as the European-American Leducq network CADgenomics to identify the genetic roots of myocardial infarction. He is the author of more than 700 publications in international journals.

Jens joined Bio^M in early 2018 to help setting up the Bavarian P4 medicine flagship project DigiMed Bayern. Since it’s start he is heading DigiMed Bayern operational part as Managing Director. The project aims to implement digitally driven predictive, preventive, personalized and participatory medicine of the future in the examplary field of atherosclerotic diseases. It is funded by the Bavarian State Ministry of Health and Care with a total of above € 24 Mio with runtime until 2024.

In addition, Jens supports Bio^M and the Bavarian Biotech Cluster with his expertise in international Business Development and Digital Health.

2006 to 2018 he was responsible for setting up and scaling DNA-related services within different companies of the Eurofins group. This comprised DNA-Forensics, ancestry and paternity testing as well as animal and plant breeding, food analysis and cell genotyping. 2001 to 2006 he worked in Sales and Product Management for the Munich area based SME Biomax Informatics AG.

Jens has a PhD in Protein Engineering from the Gene Center of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and a Diploma in Biology (Population Genetics) from Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel.

Professional Experience
•    2014 – current Resident for Internal Medicine and Cardiology, German Heart Center Munich (DHM) of the Technical University Munich, Germany, Medical Director Prof. Dr. H. Schunkert
•    2014 Surgery, Klinikum Rechts der Isar of the Technical University Munich, Germany
•    2014 Neurology, University Hospital of Zürich, Switzerland
•    2013 Pediatrics, University Hospital Großhadern, Munich, Germany
•    2013 Inner Medicine and Cardiology, University Hospital Großhadern, Munich, Germany
•    2013 Intensive-Care Medicine, University Hospital Großhadern, Munich, Germany
•    2013 General Medicine, AGZ, Altenmarkt, Austria
Research and work in progress
•    2015 – current Research on atherosclerosis – Supervisor and Medical Director Prof. Dr. H. Schunkert
•    2018 DZHK Clinician Scientist Programme – Identification and validation of key driver genes in atherosclerosis relevant networks.
•    2018 DigiMed Bayern. Scientific Co-PI: Multi-Omics in Atherosclerosis – approaching personalized medicine in CAD.
•    2016 Research fellow of the Departments of Medicine, Microbiology, Immunology, Molecular and Human Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, USA
•    2016 – 2018 “CADgenomics – Understanding CAD Genes programme” - supported by grants from the Fondation Leducq
•    2011 – 2014 Research fellow of the transplant-immunologic research laboratory Innsbruck, Austria Department of Visceral-, Transplant- and Thoracic-Surgery, University of Innsbruck,
Main Publications
von Scheidt M, Zhao Y, de Aguiar Vallim TQ, Che N, Franzén O, Kurt Z, Yamamoto M, Edwards PA, Kovacic J, Björkegren J, Lusis AJ, Yang X, Schunkert H. The transcription factor MAFF regulates an atherosclerosis relevant gene network. Accepted at Circulation
Schunkert H, Boening A, von Scheidt M, […] Hambrecht R, Kastrati A, Sandner S. Randomized trial of ticagrelor vs. aspirin in patients after coronary artery bypass grafting: the TiCAB trial. European Heart Journal. 2019 May 30. pii
von Scheidt M, Zhao Y, Kurt Z, Pan C, Zeng L, Yang X, Schunkert H, Lusis AJ. Applications and Limitations of Mouse Models for Understanding Human Atherosclerosis. Cell Metabolism. 2017 Feb 7;25(2):248-261.