Gerard A. Rongen
Radboud university medical center, The Netherlands
Biography
Rongen has completed his PhD at the age of 30 years from Radboudumc, the Netherlands and had a postdoctoral research fellowship at Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Canada. He completed his medical training at the age of 35 as Internist (Vascular Medicine) and Clinical Pharmacologist. In 2011 he accepted a position as full Professor in ‘Translational Cardiovascular Research’. He received the Galenus research prize and an Established Clinical Investigator grant from the Dutch Heart Foundation. He has published over 120 papers in peer reviewed journals. His research interests are pharmacology of purines, ischemia-reperfusion injury and vascular biology as studied in humans in-vivo
Abstract
Abstract : Cardiovascular pharmacotherapy: Innovation stuck in translation