Timo Speer studied medicine at the University of Saarland (D). From 2010 to 2012 he was Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Cardiology of the University Hospital Zurich and the Institute of Physiology, University of Zurich under Prof. Thomas F. Lüscher and Prof. Ulf Landmesser. In 2013 finished his experimental thesis entitled "Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) transfoms high-density Liporotein (HDL) into a Noxious Particle linking endothelial dysfunction, hypertension and Innate Immunity". Since 2012 he is Head of the Working Group on Vascular Biology and lipoprotein Metabolism at the University Hospital Saarland (D).