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Stefan D. Anker

German cardiologist

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 17, 2026
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Stefan D. Anker is a German cardiologist who is Head of Field "Tissue Homeostasis and Cachexia" at Charité University, Berlin, Germany. Previously, he was Professor of Innovative Clinical Trials at University Medical Center Göttingen in Germany. The main focus of the Innovative Clinical Trials department was research in the field of chronic heart failure, including the development and clinical testing of new therapies. As a W3 professor, he ranks in the top 1% worldwide experts in cachexia, sarcopenia, weight loss, iron deficiencies and heart failure according to the ScienceLeadR platform. Research.com places Stefan Anker as 111th best medicine scientist globally and in 2nd position in Germany.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 106-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Stefan, Anker and German providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Stefan D. Anker” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.