P.A.F.M. Doevendans
Pieter A. Doevendans became a cardiologist in Maastricht (trained by H. Wellens) after his medical training at the Leiden University. In 1993-1994 he had the opportunity to work with Ken Chien at the University of California San Diego, where the work on embryonic stem cells started. The work was completed in Maastricht and provided the basis for a thesis on the function of the promoter of the atrial Myosin Light Chain gene. Upon return in The Netherlands he worked with Christine Mummery and Hans Clevers on both human Embryonic as well as human Cardiac stem cells. In the meantime he remained active as an interventional cardiologist initially in Maastricht, but from 2002 on in Utrecht at the UMC Utrecht. Here he was appointed full professor in Translational Cardiology in 2004 and head of the department in 2005. The focus of the department of cardiology is on Cardiac Failure, Stem Cells and Genetics. He was funded by various national and international foundations. Thus far (2020) he published more than 800 peer reviewed papers and 12 books. The current focus is on curing PLNR14del through gene therapy and developing cardiac autotransplantation. Since 2015 he has a role as co-director of the Netherlands Heart Institute.
Contact
Email: p.doevendans@umcutrecht.nl
Phone: 088-7556176
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Research topic
Regenerative medicine and stem cells
Type of research
Regenerative medicine and stem cells
Collaborations / partnerships
- Leducq consortium CUREPLaN
- REGMEDXB cardiovascular moonshot
- ZonMW: MINI-ECG
- Kansen voor West
- EUROStars AMT
- RESCUE (Marie Curie Training grant)
Public Private Partners:
- AMT
- Quin
- ICC
- PLN foundation