Christoph Huber

Christoph Huber MD, FMH, FECTS is a Swiss cardiac surgeon who is a professor and the head of the Division of Cardiac and Vascular Surgery at the University Hospital Geneva, Switzerland.

Huber also maintains a research program, is an inventor, book author and entrepreneur, having founded the company Endoheart AG. He is the inventory of the transapical (TA) TAVI for cardiac surgery

Biography Christoph Huber completed his Dr. med. at the Bern University Medical School in Basel, Switzerland, his General Surgery Residency at the District Hospital Biel in Biel and his Cardiovascular Residency at the University Hospital Bern, Inselspital, Switzerland.

In 2016, Huber became the Head of Division Cardiac and Vascular Surgery (Médecin-chef de service) at the University Hospital Geneva (HUG). and his later research, into a percutaneous transapical TAVI platform, led to his invention of the first successful experimental closure device (TA Plug). Huber also opened a startup company

Awards

Sept. 2014 - Swiss SIWF-Award: Distinction as best Swiss teacher for Cardiac Surgery May 2009 - National Research Prize, Swiss National Heart Foundation: In recognition for development of the transapical TAVI approach (Trans Catheter Valve Replacement of the Aortic Valve - The Direct Access Trans Apical Procedure) Sept. 2005 - St. Jude Medical/C Walton Lillehei Young Investigator's Award, EACTS (19th Annual Meeting, Barcelona, Spain) European Association For Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS - Chair Acquired Cardiac Disease Domain/Moderator Techno College)