Axel Radlach Pries studied medicine at the University of Cologne. He worked as postdoctoral fellow in Cologne, at the Institute of Anaesthesiology of the German Heart Center Berlin and at the Free University Berlin where he became full professor for Physiology (1998), and head of the Charité Institute for Physiology (2001). His scientific interests include microcirculation, endothelium, tumour vasculature, blood rheology, vascular adaptation and angiogenesis. He was general secretary of the European Society for Microcirculation (ESM) and chair of the International Liaison Committee for Microcirculation. In the European Society of Cardiology (ESC), he chaired the Working Group for Coronary Pathophysiology and Microcirculation and the Council for Basic Cardiovascular Science. His awards include the Malpighi Award of the ESM, the Poiseuille Gold Medal of the International Society of Biorheology and the Silver Medal of the ESC. 2015 to 2022 he was Dean of Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin and served from 2018 to 2020 as interim CEO of the Berlin Institute of Health (BIH) and as President of the Biomedical Alliance in Europe. 2021, he became President of the World Health Summit. Since 2023 he is also Prorector of the Danube Private University in Krems / Austria.
