History
Dr. Kai Ulf Markus born in 1974, Dr. Kai Ulf Markus started his medical studies in 1994 at the University of Aachen. Receiving a Diploma from the Université de Paris Sorbonne (France) added an international perspective to his educational life.
After an internship at the University Hospital of the Université René Descartes Paris (France) in 2000, he came back to Germany and worked as a physician in cardiology and electrophysiology within the Cardiologic Department of the University Hospital in Aachen from 2001 to 2007 providing him with a six-year experience regarding the various disease patterns found in cardiac arrhythmia as well as the State-of-the-Art of their treatment – including their shortcomings.
From 2002 to 2004, Kai was able to complement his daily clinical work by joining development projects at one of the leading German medical technology companies Biotronik (based in Berlin, Ger¬many) on new gene¬rations of pacemakers, defibrillators, electro¬physio-logical test equipment and ablation catheters in operational as well as super visory positions. This added three years of hands on medical product development experience to his professional life.
In 2004-2006, Kai worked together with Prorhythm Inc, Ronconcoma, USA for clinical trials in Germany and the USA. Prorhythm developed an Ultrasound based Balloon-Atrial-Fibrillation (AF) catheter. Being involved in preclinical and clinical development of devices for the treatment of heart rhythm disturbances he was confronted with the existing and persisting short comings in medical and operational treatments. This work laid the cornerstone of Vimecon's Medical Mission.
In 2004, Dr. Markus received an entrepreneurial training from the Center for Entrepreneurship at RWTH Aachen and in 2004 joined the PFAU Grant-Program within the Entrepreneurship Center allowing him to begin building Vimecon GmbH as Founder. Since 2007 Kai changed from the University to Vimecon as a full-time Predsident & CEO completed several significant VC-funding rounds which enabled him to establish Vimecon as one of the World´s Top Rated Innovators in Cardiology.
