C Gratzke

Christian Gratzke is associate professor at the Department of Urology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU) in Munich, Germany (Director: Prof. C. G. Stief). After Medical School at the LMU Munich and University of Vienna, he completed a research fellowship at the Department of Anatomy, LMU Munich before starting residency at LMU Munich in 2004. Christian Gratzke underwent research fellowships between 2007-2008 at Wake Forest University, NC (Prof. Karl-Erik Andersson) and at Lund University, Sweden (Prof. Petter Hedlund) in clinical pharmacology. His main clinical interests include treatment of prostate and renal cell cancer in addition to his basic and clinical research activities focusing on lower urinary tract and erectile dysfunction. Christian Gratzke is member of the EAU working group on BPH/male LUTS/BOO, member of the sub-committee (basic research) at the European Society for Sexual Medicine (ESSM), and member of the Urological Research Society (URS). He has published more than 140 articles in peer-reviewed journals, authored 15 book chapters and received multiple national and international awards for his basic and clinical research.