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Professor Jean-Luc Balligand

Catholic University of Louvain, Brussels (Belgium)

J-L Balligand and his team developed the core of their research projects in the biochemistry and cellular biology of nitric oxide synthases (NOS) including their regulation in cardiovascular tissues. His group initiated the research on the role of nitric oxide synthases (NOS) in cardiac myocyte contractility which is being extended in the context of myocardial remodelling and regeneration, e.g. in response to neurohormones and adrenoceptors. His lab has recognized expertise in cell signalling and cardiovascular pharmacology using in vitro and in vivo models. JL Balligand is past-President of IREC, Head of the FATH Pole within IREC and also practicing Physician at the Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, UCLouvain and teaches cardiovascular physiology and pharmacology at UCLouvain Medical School. JL Balligand was Board member of the ESC Council on Basic Cardiovascular Science and has been co-director of the Summer School in Basic Cardiovascular Research sponsored by the Council 2009-13.

Heart-brain and brain-heart interactions in cardiovascular health and disease

Event: ESC Congress 2024

Topic: Cardiac Diseases

Session type: Symposium

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How to tackle fibrosis in cardiovascular diseases

Event: ESC Congress 2023

Topic: Basic Science

Session type: Symposium

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Diastolic dysfunction: models to mechanisms

Event: Heart Failure 2021

Topic: Heart Failure

Session type: Symposium

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Determinants of heart failure: hypertrophy and fibrosis

Event: ESC Congress 2019

Topic: Cardiac Diseases

Session type: Moderated Posters

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Novel molecular mechanisms in heart failure

Event: ESC Congress 2018

Topic: Cardiac Diseases

Session type: Rapid Fire Abstracts

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New heart failure therapies at the horizon

Event: Heart Failure 2018

Topic: Genetics, Epigenetics, ncRNA

Session type: Symposium

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Cardiac fibroblasts - Essential players in cardiac health and disease

Event: ESC Congress 2017

Topic: Excitation-contraction coupling and contractile remodelling

Session type: Symposium

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Fibrosis - The dark side of the force

Event: ESC Congress 2017

Topic: Cardiovascular anatomy and pathology

Session type: Advances in Science

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Regulation and cardiac metabolism

Event: ESC Congress 2017

Topic: Metabolism and metabolic syndromes

Session type: Moderated Posters

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Moderated Poster session 4 - Basic Science

Event: Heart Failure 2017 - 4th World Congress on Acute Heart Failure

Topic: Miscellaneous

Session type: Moderated Posters

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