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Professor Gerard Pasterkamp

University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht (Netherlands (The))

Gerard Pasterkamp, MD, is Professor of Experimental Cardiology, UMC Utrecht, the Netherlands. His research interests are in the field of cardiovascular biology and more specifically innovation in biomarkers and drug targets. The research group houses one of the largest atherosclerotic plaque biobank worldwide: Athero-Express including >4000 patients This biobank has generated new insights into determinants of plaque destabilisation. For example, it has been demonstrated that local plaque characteristics are strongly associated with long term outcome but also that plaque characteristics have rapidly changed in the last decade. The laboratory now invests in the excavation of genetic determinants of atherosclerotic plaque characteristics. Insights in the mechanisms of atherosclerosis progression have been obtained by executing whole genome SNP analyses and DNA methylation as well as single cell sequencing.

TO_AITION: cardiovascular disease and depression comorbidity - insights into its underlying pathophysiology

Event: ESC Congress 2024

Topic: Inflammation and Immunity

Session type: Special Session

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Immunometabolic regulation of CVD

Event: Frontiers in CardioVascular Biomedicine 2024

Topic: Lipids, Metabolism

Session type: Special Session

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Sex- and age-dependent differences in coronary heart disease mechanisms: toward personalised management

Event: Frontiers in CardioVascular Biomedicine 2024

Topic: Ischaemia, Infarction, Cardioprotection

Session type: Symposium

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Inflammation and lipids - A dreadful duet

Event: ESC Congress 2016

Topic: Atherosclerosis

Session type: Rapid Fire Abstracts

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