Professor Lüscher studied medicine at the University of Zurich and obtained board certification in internal medicine and cardiology. He trained in cardiovascular research and cardiology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, USA and was later Professor of Pharmacotherapy at the University of Basel, then trained in interventional cardiology and beca-me Professor of Cardiology at the Uni-versity of Berne, before assuming a position as Professor and Chairman of Cardiology and Di-rector of the University Heart Center at the Uni-versity Hospital Zurich and Director of the Center for Molecular Cardiology at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. He is now Director of Re-search, Education & Development and Consul-ting Cardiologist at the Royal Brompton & Harefield Hospital Trust and Professor of Cardiology at the National Heart and Lung Institute of the Imperial College in London.

Professor Lüscher is an active general and interventional cardiologist with a broad clini-cal scope and large experience in cardiology at large. He has sucessfully taken care of patients for several decades from many countries, in particular from the Middle East.

Professor Lüscher has been a mentor of numerous physicians. His research is translational and focuses on vascular disease, specifically on the role of endothelium-derived mediators in the regulation of vascular tone and structure, platelet-vessel wall interactions, coagulation in aging, hypertension, lipid disorders and atherosclerosis. More recently, inflammatory pathways in acute coronary syndromes has been at the center of his interest. He has published extensively, original research articles, reviews, editorials and book chapters and monographs including the ESC Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine, Oxford University Press. 

By the Institute for Scientific Information he has been rated as one of the 0.5% most cited scientists worldwide. He has obtained numerous research prizes and prestigious lecturerships worldwide. He is a member of many editorial boards and was Associate Editor Europe of Circulation from 2004 to 2008. Since 2009 up to 2020 he was chair-man of the publications committee of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) and an ex-officio member of the ESC board as well as editor-in-chief of the European Heart Journal. Since 2020, his secretary/treasurer of the European Society of Cardiology.