Dr Kaier has graduated from the Medical University Innsbruck, Austria, in 2008 following the completion of an MD thesis investigating ischaemia/reperfusion injury in cardiomyocytes. During his clinical training in General Medicine and Cardiology in London, he completed a Master of Business Administration with Merit. Following award of a competitive research fellowship by the British Heart Foundation in January 2015, he has complete a PhD at King’s College London, investigating novel biomarkers of cardiac ischaemia. Dr Kaier is a Member of the Royal College of Physicians and has published in international peer-reviewed journals. He won the ‘HyTest Cardiac Marker Award for remarkable scientific work in the field of cardiovascular diseases’ awarded by the European Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (EFLM) and was finalist in several Young Investigator Competitions, most recently winning the Research & Innovation Prize at the Royal Society of Medicine (EM section).
