About our department
Our research
What is the overall aim?
The mission of the department of Cardiology is to make a significant scientific contribution to reduce the burden of cardiovascular disease by 25% over the next 5-10 years. We aim to achieve this by performing translational research, clinical studies and population-based research in close collaboration with (inter)national partners and patient advocacy groups focusing on the key areas ischemic cardiovascular disease, congenital or acquired structural heart disease and as final common pathways arrhythmias and heart failure.What are the focus areas of your research? (examples)
The department of Cardiology performs translational research, clinical studies, and population-based research in close collaboration with (inter)national partners and patient advocacy groups on 5 key areas: Ischemic cardiovascular disease, congenital or acquired structural heart defects, arrhythmias and heart failure.Principal Investigators
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Prof. dr. F. Zijlstra
Head of the department of Cardiology
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Prof. dr. ir. H. Boersma
Head of Cardiovascular Epidemiology
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Prof. dr. D.J.G.M. Duncker
Professor of Experimental Cardiology
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Prof. dr PhD N.M.S. de Groot
Cardiologist-Electrophysiologist, chief Research Unit Translational Electrophysiology
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Prof. dr. N.M.D.A. Van Mieghem
Head of Interventional Cardiology
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Prof. dr. J.W. Roos-Hesselink
Head of Congenital Cardiology
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Prof. dr. ir. A.F.W. van der Steen
Head of Biomedical Engineering
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Prof. dr. P.P.T. de Jaegere
Professor Interventional Cardiology
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Prof. dr. ir. N. de Jong
Professor Biomedical Engineering
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Prof. dr. D. Merkus
Professor of Cardiopulmonary Pathophysiology
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Prof. dr. G. van Soest
Head of Invasive Imaging
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Dr. ir. J.G. Bosch
Associate Professor
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Dr. A.E. van den Bosch
Associate professor, Congenital Cardiologist
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Dr. C. Cheng
Associate professor
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Dr. ir. F.J.H. Gijsen
Associate Professor
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Dr. K. van der Heiden
Associate professor
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Dr. K. Kooiman
Associate professor, Head of Therapeutic Ultrasound Contrast Agents
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Dr. O.C. Manintveld
Associate professor
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Dr. T. Szili-Torok
Associate professor
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Dr. ir. H.J. Vos
Associate Professor
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Dr. ir. J.J. Wentzel
Associate professor, Head of Biomechanics Laboratory
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Dr. K.M. Akkerhuis
Cardiologist
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Dr. ir. A.C. Akyildiz
Assistant professor
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Dr. H.M.M. van Beusekom
Assistant professor
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Dr. J.J. Brugts
Associate professor, Cardiologist
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Dr. J. Daemen
Interventional Cardiologist
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Prof. dr. I. Kardys
Cardiovascular Epidemiologist
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Dr. M. Michels
Cardiologist
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Dr. O.E. Sorop
Assistant professor
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Dr. T. Wang
Assistant Professor
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Dr. S.C. Yap
Cardiac Electrophysiologist
Research lines
The department of Cardiology has 7 research groups which are all focused on 1 or more of the 5 key areas and are highly interconnected.
- Experimental Cardiology - Prof. dr. Dirk Jan Duncker
- Electrophysiology - Prof. dr. Natasja de Groot
- Cardiovascular Epidemiology - Prof. dr. Eric Boersma
- Congenital Cardiology - Prof. dr. Jolien Roos-Hesselink
- Intervention Cardiology - Prof. dr. Nicolas van Mieghem
- Heart Failure - PI to be appointed
- Biomedical Engineering - Prof. dr. ir. Ton van der Steen
Projects
AMPHORA – Acoustic markers for enhanced remote sensing of radiation doses
Biomechanics and Atherosclerosis
Biomechanics and congenital cardiovascular disease
Biomechanics in Congenital Cardiology
BUBBLE CURE
BUBBLE QUEST
Cardiac Mechanics
EFFECTS - Echocardiographic Tissue Stiffness measurements
FUSION study: Coronary CT with FFRct
Human disease model for atherosclerosis
Imaging atherosclerotic plaque lipidomics in vivo
MIFFY- Monitoring infant brain perfusion by echography
Molecular imaging of atherosclerosis
PARFAIT
QUANTO-3D-myocardial-perfusion-imaging-with-echography
Rapid Innovation of Minimally Invasive Instruments
Seeing the heart attack (and more) before it happens
Sonobactericide to treat bacterial infective endocarditis
Theranostic-phospholipid-coated-ultrasound-contrast-agents
ULTRA-X-TREME X-Flow
Facilities
- a unique experimental intervention room, allowing state of the art cardiovascular intervention studies in human-sized pigs
- facilities for cardiovascular histopathology and molecular biology research, a scanning electron microscope
- own biobanking infrastructure within the Triallab of the Clinical Chemistry department
- a fast framing digital camera for up to 25 Million frames per seconds, which can be linked to a confocal microscope
- two optical labs, an ultrasound lab, facilities for MALDI imaging and a lab for cell culturing
- CUBE research facility for functional ultrasound brain imaging
Collaborations
- Many departments in the Erasmus MC
- The 16 Cardiovascular ACEs
- Dutch Cardiovascular Alliance
- TU Delft
- Netherlands Heart Institute