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Mr Art Schuermans

KU Leuven, Leuven (Belgium)

Member of:

European Society of Cardiology

Art Schuermans is a medical student at KU Leuven and an affiliated researcher with the Broad Insitute of MIT and Harvard. From 2022 to 2023, he served as a predoctoral research fellow at the Center for Genomic Medicine and the Cardiovascular Research Center of the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He also has a research affiliation with the Cardiovascular Clinical Research Facility at the University of Oxford. Art's research focuses on understanding the causal and modifiable mechanisms underlying cardiovascular disease risk throughout the entire lifespan. Specifically, he aims to (1) understand how perinatal and early-life events such as preterm birth or hypertensive disorders of pregnancy contribute to long-term offspring and maternal cardiovascular disease; (2) gain insights into pathways linking aging with cardiovascular diseases (e.g., via somatic mutations and inflammation); and (3) contribute to precision medicine approaches in the context of life course prevention.

Cardiovascular risk in autoimmune diseases: associations and interactions with traditional risk factors in a prospective population-based cohort of 450 000 individuals

Event: ESC Congress 2025

Topic: Autoimmune/Chronic Inflammatory Disorders and Heart Disease

Session: Cardiovascular health in women: from hormones to high-risk conditions

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Clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential predicts new-onset myocarditis and pericarditis

Event: ESC Congress 2025

Topic: Epidemiology, Prognosis, Outcome

Session: Myocarditis and inflammatory myocardial disease (1)

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Mendelian randomization of the cardiovascular disease-related proteome identifies novel drug targets for gestational hypertension and preeclampsia

Event: ESC Congress 2023

Topic: Pregnancy and Cardiovascular Disease

Session: Pregnancy: prediction and screening

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