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Studentbeurzen Nederlandse Hartstichting 2022 Call for Proposals - Deadline 1 september 2023

Studentbeurzen Nederlandse Hartstichting 2022 Call for Proposals - Deadline 1 september 2023

11 May 2023

Binnen het dr. E. Dekker-programma voor persoonsgebonden beurzen stelt de Nederlandse Hartstichting per universiteit twee studentbeurzen beschikbaar. De beurs bedraagt maximaal € 3.000.

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Harry Crijns Research Grant - Deadline 17 september 2023

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25 April 2023

De Harry Crijns Research Grant, in het leven geroepen door het Hart en vaat onderzoekfonds Limburg, in te stelle wordt periodiek toegekend aan jonge wetenschappers die zich bezighouden met klinisch cardiovasculair onderzoek en daarmee bijdragen aan de realisering van de doelstellingen van de foundation.

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Leon de Windt

Professor

Prof. Leon de Windt obtained a Master’s degree in Molecular Biology at Utrecht University in 1994, and a PhD in Cardiovascular Physiology at Maastricht University in 1999. Following a post-doctoral residence at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute of Jeffery Molkentin in Cincinnati OH, USA, he became group leader at the Hubrecht Institute in Utrecht. As of 2010, he was appointed as Professor of Molecular Cardiovascular Biology at Maastricht University and chairs a team including one associate professor, one tenure-track assistant professor and 15 PhD students. Leon is the recipient of several Awards, including a 2008 Fondation Leducq Transatlantic Network of Excellence; the 2012 Outstanding Achievement Award of the ESC Council for Basic Cardiovascular Science and the 2012 Galenus Research Prize. In 2013, he received an ERC Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) and became coordinator of Dutch Heart Foundation funded CVON-ARENA consortium to support his work. He received the Veni (2001), Vidi (2007) and Vici (2017) career development awards from the Netherlands Organisation of Scientific Research (NWO). In 2018, he became coordinator of the Dutch Heart Foundation funded DCVA-ARENA-PRIME consortium aimed to tackle inherited heart diseases. Since 2019 he coordinates the Marie Skłodowska Curie Actions Innovative Training Network 'TRAIN-HEART' (www.train-heart.eu).

His research focusess on the function of non-coding RNAs as epigenetic regulators of cardiac gene expression using genetic manipulation in (iPS-derived) cardiomyocytes and mouse models. More recently, his team exploits their academic findings towards rational therapy development for various genetic and acquired forms of heart failure in the Dutch spin-off company Mirabilis Therapeutics BV that he co-founded in 2015. The research is performed in close collaboration with chemists, life scientists, and clinicians, and often executed within public-private partnerships. Many alumni from his group have successfully started their own research laboratories, fulfill executive industrial functions or became clinician-researchers as the future generation of leaders in medicine (see: www.dewindtlab.com).

 

Leon-de-windt

Department of Cardiology
Department of Molecular Biology and RNA Technology 
Universiteitsingel 50, 6229 ER Maastricht
PO Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht

  • 2023
    • de Boer, M., Hekkert, M. T., Chang, J., van Thiel, B. S., Martens, L., Bos, M. M., de Kleijnen, M. G. J., Ridwan, Y., Octavia, Y., van Deel, E. D., Blonden, L. A., Brandt, R. M. C., Barnhoorn, S., Bautista-Nino, P. K., Krabbendam-Peters, I., Wolswinkel, R., Arshi, B., Ghanbari, M., Kupatt, C., ... Duncker, D. J. (2023). DNA repair in cardiomyocytes is critical for maintaining cardiac function in mice. Aging Cell, 22(3), [e13768]. https://doi.org/10.1111/acel.13768
    • Vilaça, A., de Windt, L. J., Fernandes, H., & Ferreira, L. (2023). Strategies and challenges for non-viral delivery of non-coding RNAs to the heart. Trends in Molecular Medicine, 29(1), 70-91. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molmed.2022.10.002
  • 2022
    • Hegenbarth, J. C., De Majo, F., Spano, G., Olieslagers, S., Esfandyari, D., Tiburcy, M., Zimmermann, W. H., Stoll, M., & de Windt, L. (2022). Machine learning-assisted integration of single cell transcriptomic data identifies potential cardiomyocyte maturation genes. Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology, 173, S47-S47. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yjmcc.2022.08.094
    • Spano, G., Hegenbarth, J. C., De Majo, F., Tiburcy, M., Zimmermann, W. H., & de Windt, L. (2022). RNA m6A modification governs early human cardiomyocyte commitment. Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology, 173, S108-S109. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yjmcc.2022.08.215
    • Soragni, C., Rabussier, G., Lanz, H. L., Bircsak, K. M., de Windt, L. J., Trietsch, S. J., Murdoch, C. E., & Ng, C. P. (2022). A versatile multiplexed assay to quantify intracellular ROS and cell viability in 3D on-a-chip models. Redox Biology, 57, [102488]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.redox.2022.102488
    • Videira, R. F., Koop, A. M. C., Ottaviani, L., Poels, E. M., Kocken, J. M. M., Dos Remedios, C., Mendes-Ferreira, P., Van De Kolk, K. W., Du Marchie Sarvaas, G. J., Lourenço, A., Llucià-Valldeperas, A., Nascimento, D. S., de Windt, L. J., De Man, F. S., Falcão-Pires, I., Berger, R. M. F., & da Costa Martins, P. (2022). The adult heart requires baseline expression of the transcription factor Hand2 to withstand right ventricular pressure overload. Cardiovascular Research, 118(12), 2688-2702. https://doi.org/10.1093/cvr/cvab299
    • Raso, A., Dirkx, E., Sampaio-Pinto, V., El Azzouzi, H., Cubero, R. J., Sorensen, D. W., Ottaviani, L., Olieslagers, S., Huibers, M. M., de Weger, R., Siddiqi, S., Moimas, S., Torrini, C., Zentillin, L., Braga, L., Nascimento, D. S., da Costa Martins, P. A., van Berlo, J. H., Zacchigna, S., ... De Windt, L. J. (2022). Author Correction: A microRNA program regulates the balance between cardiomyocyte hyperplasia and hypertrophy and stimulates cardiac regeneration. Nature Communications, 13(1), [4977]. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32785-0
    • Sansonetti, M., & De Windt, L. J. (2022). Non-coding RNAs in cardiac inflammation: key drivers in the pathophysiology of heart failure. Cardiovascular Research, 118(9), 2058-2073. https://doi.org/10.1093/cvr/cvab192
    • Ottaviani, L., Juni, R. P., de Abreu, R. C., Sansonetti, M., Sampaio-Pinto, V., Halkein, J., Hegenbarth, J. C., Ring, N., Knoops, K., Kocken, J. M. M., Jesus, C. D., Ernault, A. C., El Azzouzi, H., Rühle, F., Olieslagers, S., Fernandes, H., Ferreira, L., Braga, L., Stoll, M., ... da Costa Martins, P. A. (2022). Intercellular transfer of miR-200c-3p impairs the angiogenic capacity of cardiac endothelial cells. Molecular Therapy, 30(6), 2257-2273. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ymthe.2022.03.002
    • Vilaca, A., Fernandes, H., de Windt, L., & Ferreira, L. (2022). H19-Enriched Extracellular Vesicles Promote Angiogenesis In Vitro. Tissue Engineering, 28, S354-S354.
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