Florian Meissner

2025
Speaker
Lab

Florian Meissner is a postdoc in cardiac surgery. He holds an MD and is pursuing an MBA in Healthcare Management. As project head of HeartGate, he is developing a system to make heart pump implantation faster and safer, creating new options for high-risk patients. His team won the 2025 Science4Life Venture Cup and secured €4 million in funding for medical device development. He says that without the fall of the Berlin Wall, his life would be very different, making this competition a true honour.

Events by this speaker

06.11.

09:15 - 11:00

06 Curie Stage

Englisch

Falling Walls Lab Pitches: Session 01

Maarja Merivoo-Parro, Muhammad Mounir, Lilit Avanesyan, Valentine Nnamani, Rocío Vázquez Martínez, Min-Quan He, Tinotenda Njajawa, Zarifa Asadullayeva, Abdulrahman Qudsi, Marcelina Jureczko, Julian Bopp, Dalia Elleuch, Unathi Ramashala, Mitesh Shrestha, Tayebeh Saghaei, Akira Ono, Baraah Al-Aufi, Keiu Virro, Florian Meissner, Natalie Fardian-Melamed, Balchandar Navaneethan, Beatrice Ali Phiri, Alexandra Corina Iacoban, Ivan Civettini, Veronika Šedajová, Sabir Hossain, Yaroslava Shylyk, Margot F. K. Verstreken, Ankit Parikh, Francesca Kastner, Sarwan Shafeeq, Erchissaran Ganbold, Beyza Ustun-Elayan, Shaheer Ahmad, Mabel Day

Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR), Federal Foreign Office, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Springer Nature, The Italian Embassy in Berlin, Die Zeit Verlagsgruppe, Sartorius, academics