Prof. Dr. med. Edelgard Lindhoff-Last Head of the Coagulation Research Center and the Coagulation Center Member of the Vascular Center at the Cardiology Angiology Center Bethanien (CCB), Frankfurt, Germany Edelgard Lindhoff-Last became Head of the Coagulation Research Center and of the Coagulation Center at the Cardioangiology Center Bethanien in January 2015, where she works as a specialist in internal medicine, focusing on angiology and haemostasis. Prior to this appointment, Prof. Lindhoff-Last spent her career at Johann-Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt, Germany, beginning as a physician in 1987 and progressing to Fellow, Consultant, and Associate Professor, before becoming Professor of Angiology and Haemostaseology in 2008. From 2004 – 2014 she was head of the department of Angiology and Haemostaseology at the Johann-Wolfgang Goethe University Hospital, Frankfurt, Germany. During her career, she has amassed 18 years of experience in clinical trials and - in addition to her clinical and scientific work - was responsible for the coagulation laboratory. Prof. Lindhoff-Last is a member of the International Society of Thrombosis and Haemostasis (ISTH), a Member of the European ECAT (external quality Control of diagnostic assays and tests) expert team on Coagulation Diagnostics, Consultant for the European Research Council (ERC) of the European Union, a board member of the ISTH subcommittee Control of Anticoagulation. She is also a member of the German societies of Angiology, Thrombosis and Haemostasis, Internal Medicine, Cardiology and the European Society of Cardiology. Her many research interests include monitoring of direct oral anticoagulants and their influence on coagulation assays ex vivo as well as documentation of bleeding management in anticoagulated patients in prospective registries or improving thrombophilia testing and COVID 19 infection and vaccination.