Bassam Redwan was born in 1983. In 2004 he joined the research laboratory of Prof. Irene M. Lang, where he established a model for murine venous thrombosis for investigating chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH). In 2014 he became a junior consultant for thoracic surgery and established the program of extracorporeal lung support at the Department of Thoracic Surgery and Lung Assist, Klinikum Ibbenbuern, Germany. In February 2016 he became a board-certified Thoracic Surgeon. Between 2016 and 2018 he worked as Consultant for Thoracic Surgery at Klinikum Ibbenbueren, Helios University Hospital of Wuppertal and University Hospital of Muenster. His clinical and research scope of interest are extracorporeal lung support, lung cancer, vascular biology, pulmonary hypertension and lung emphysema.