Paolo Brenner
Paolo Brenner (born 21 May 1966, in Höchstädt an der Donau) is a German physician and a professor of cardiac surgery at the Department of Cardiac Surgery, Klinikum Großhadern of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU). He is known for his work in the fields of xenotransplantation, the advancement of artificial hearts, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) and lung transplantation. Biography As an adolescent, Brenner was a co-founder of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kosmologie (DGK). He was editor and co-publisher of the Zeitschrift für Kosmologie 1990-2007. In this function, he was driven by his own physical research paper (1985) titled "The biography of fixed stars" and by his work at Jugend forscht about black holes and published several own papers and surveys about cosmological subjects (1986). Scientific contribution Since 1993, Brenner has dealt with topics of thoracic organ transplantation and, since 2004, as a transplant surgeon of heart and lung transplantation. Since 2006, he has been a member of the Munich Lung Transplant Group and from 2000 has been an explant surgeon of the German Organ Transplantation Foundation (Deutsche Stiftung Organtransplantation (DSO)). In 1993, he was a junior operator of the former Baxter Novacor Company for the wearable artificial heart