An overview of our project supervisors
Supervisor of project 1: A failing resolution of inflammation in increased plaque instability: cause or consequence of microcalcifications?
Professor of Cardiology at Karolinska Institutet and Senior Consultant at the Division of Valvular and Coronary Heart Disease at Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm (Sweden)
Supervisor of project 2: Contribution of calcium crystals to non-canonical inflammatory protein secretion in platelets and endothelial cells
Associate Professor at Maastricht University, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen / RWTH Aachen
Supervisor of project 3: Vascular smooth muscle cell phenotypic switching
Professor at the Department of Biochemistry, which is part of the Cardiovascular Research Institute CARIM Maastricht University
Supervisor of project 4: Chronic kidney disease (CKD)– a clinical model of premature vascular ageing
Associate Professor at Karolinska Institutet Stockholm (Sweden)
Supervisor of project 5: Characterisation of the recently identified “Calcification blocking factor” (CBF) and isolation of unknown mediators inhibiting calcification processes
Director of the Institute for Molecular Cardiovascular Research (IMCAR)
Supervisor of project 6: The role of GLP-1 in the development of diabetic intimal and medial calcification
Group leader at the Department of Internal Medicine I (Cardiology) at RWTH Aachen University
Supervisor of project 7: Vascular remodeling: Identification and characterization of novel vSMCs markers relevant to vascular remodeling
Research group leader of the group Vascular Surgery at Karolinska Institutet Stockholm (Sweden)
Supervisor of project 8: Dissecting the cross-interaction between vascular micro-calcification and inflammation: a human systems biology approach
Chair Experimental Vascular Pathology lab MUMC+ Maastricht
Supervisor of project 9: Molecular and drug design to detect and target vascular microcalcification
Professor and Chairman of Biochemistry Cardiovascular Research Institute Maastricht (CARIM)
Supervisor of project 10: Investigation of plaque vulnerability using Hybrid PET/MR imaging of key aspects of plaque vulnerability in different vascular beds
Professor of Medical Physics, especially vascular imaging at Maastricht University Medical Center