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Fellowships EmbRACE consortium

Fellowships EmbRACE consortium

21 May 2026

The EmbRACE consortium, coordinated by CARIM, has awarded three fellowships, including two to CARIM researchers.

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NWO grant for project 'Laminomics'

NWO grant for project 'Laminomics'

21 May 2026

Tim van de Wiel, Dr Magdalena Harakalova, and Dr Rogier Veltrop (Dept of Biochemistry) have been awarded an NWO grant for large-scale high-performance computing time.

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Roberto Lorusso

Professor

Prof. Roberto Lorusso studied medicine at the University of Milan, Italy and graduated in 1987 magna cum Laude. He worked at Maastricht UMC+ in 1990 at CTC research and in 1996 and 1997 at the academic Hospital of Leuven. In 1998, he successfully obtained his PhD degree at Maastricht University (thesis titled 'Cardiac reinforcement and assistance by electrically stimulated skeletal muscle').

Currently, Prof. Roberto Lorusso is staff member at the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Maastricht UMC+, Director of the Extracorporeal Life Support (ECLS) Program, Full Professor of Cardiac Surgery and ECLS at the Maastricht University and CARIM. His research group is focussed on mechanical circulatory support, minimally invasive valve surgery, coronary surgery, cardiac valve disease, extracorporeal circulation, acute myocardial infarction complications, cardiac valve disease, preclinical and clinical research.

Prof. Roberto Lorusso won the Gasperis-Donatelli Prize in 1989, a Young Investigator Award in 1995 and the Lillehei Award in 1998 by the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery.  He was Scientific Secretary of the Italian Society for Cardiac Surgery in 2007 and 2008, President of Euro-ELSO (2015-2017), and he is currently Editor-in-Chief of the Multi-Media Manual of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery as well as member of the ELSO Executive Committee.

He has almost 300 publications in PubMed, and has given more than 300 presentations at international meetings as invited speaker. He is Principal Investigator of international multicentre clinical studies and grant receiver from several funding bodies for clinical as well as pre-clinical investigations.

Roberto-lorusso

Department of Cardiothoracic surgery
P. Debyelaan 25, 6229 HX Maastricht 
PO Box 5800, 6202 AZ Maastricht
Room number: D.2037
T: +31(0)43 387 60 32

  • 2026
    • Manca, P., Puglisi, S., Pascalis, L., Nuzzi, V., Cannata, S., Raffa, G. M., Mule, M., Iacoviello, M., Cipriani, M., & Lorusso, R. (2026). Prognostic role of invasively determined pulmonary hypertension in ambulatory patients with advanced heart failure: a prospective cohort study. Current Problems in Cardiology, 51(5), Article 103301. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpcardiol.2026.103301
    • Philip, M., Dumonceau, R. G., Citro, R., Cosyns, B., Donal, E., Erba, P. A., Gouriet, F., Iung, B., Kong, W. K. F., Lancellotti, P., Maggioni, A., Mancini, J., Popescu, B. A., Prendergast, B., Sambola, A., Sengupta, S. P., Timoteo, A., Tribouilloy, C., van Melle, J. P., ... Streukens, B. (2026). Clinical characteristics, management and outcomes of enterococcal infective endocarditis: an ancillary study from the ESC-EORP EURO-ENDO registry. European heart journal - Quality of care & clinical outcomes, 12(3), 308-321. https://doi.org/10.1093/ehjqcco/qcaf145
    • Arens, J., Belliato, M., Broman, L. M., Clauser, J. C., Donker, D. W., Lorusso, R., Malfertheiner, M., Rajsic, S., Swol, J., Vercaemst, L., Wittberg, L. P., EACTS Innovation Committee, Section CPB, ECLS & MCS, & EuroELSO Innovation Group (2026). Standardization of In Vitro Evaluation of Extracorporeal Life Support (ECLS) Devices for Research and Development. Artificial Organs. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/aor.70124
    • Arens, J., Belliato, M., Broman, L. M., Clauser, J. C., Donker, D. W., Lorusso, R., Malfertheiner, M., Rajsic, S., Swol, J., Vercaemst, L., Wittberg, L. P., EACTS Innovation Committee, EuroELSO Innovation Group, & Section CPB ECLS & MCS (2026). Standardization of In-Vitro Evaluation of Extracorporeal Life Support (ECLS) Devices for Research and Development. Interdisciplinary CardioVascular and Thoracic Surgery, 41(4), Article ivag054. https://doi.org/10.1093/icvts/ivag054
    • Baldetti, L., Pontillo, D., Capoccia, M., Kowalewski, M., Tonna, J. E., Broman, M., Conrad, S. A., Swol, J., Scandroglio, A. M., Brewer, J. M., Maybauer, M. O., & Lorusso, R. (2026). Venopulmonary extracorporeal life support: An Extracorporeal Life Support Organization registry analysis. Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation, 45(4), 621-633. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healun.2025.12.024
    • Baldetti, L., Beneduce, A., Schivalocchi, M., Cecchi, D., Zaccaria, L., Ajello, S., Chieffo, A., Maisano, F., Lorusso, R., & Scandroglio, A. M. (2026). Bedside Correction of Impella Malrotation to Resolve Mechanical Hemolysis. JACC. Cardiovascular interventions, 19(6), 792-793. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcin.2025.12.024
    • Ruocco, G., Salzano, A., Franceschi, S., Lorusso, R., Pirrotta, F., Stefanini, A., Pagliaro, A., Severino, P., D'Amato, A., Vizza, C. D., Crisci, G., Guazzi, M., Frea, S., Pastorini, G., Feola, M., Fedele, F., & Palazzuoli, A. (2026). Continuous Versus Intermittent Loop Diuretics Step-by-Step Protocol in Acute Heart Failure (DIUR-AHF): A Propensity-Matched Analysis. Journal of the American Heart Association, 15(6), Article e045911. https://doi.org/10.1161/JAHA.125.045911
    • Eussen, S. E. D. M., van de Koolwijk, A. F., Delnoij, T. S. R., Suverein, M. M., Essers, B. A. B., Hermanides, R. C., Otterspoor, L. C., Kraemer, C. V. E., Vlaar, A. P. J., van der Heijden, J. J., Scholten, E., den Uil, C. A., Mirada, D. D. R., Akin, S., de Metz, J., van der Horst, I., Winkens, B., Maessen, J. G., Lorusso, R., ... INCEPTION-investigators (2026). Attitudes of patients and family members towards deferred and waived consent in ECPR research, an ancillary study of the INCEPTION trial. Resuscitation Plus, 28, Article 101239. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resplu.2026.101239
    • Giustina, A., di Filippo, L., Aleksova, A., Bollerslev, J., Colao, A. M., Dawson-Hughes, B., Donini, L. M., Ebeling, P. R., Lazaretti-Castro, M., Lorusso, R., Luzi, L., Marcocci, C., Minisola, S., Napoli, N., Pittas, A. G., Rizzoli, R., Rovere Querini, P., Santini, F., Schafer, A. L., ... Bilezikian, J. P. (2026). Consensus statement on vitamin D role in metabolic health. Metabolism-Clinical and Experimental, 176, Article 156484. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.metabol.2025.156484
    • De Piero, M. E., Alessandri, F., Mariani, S., Di Mauro, M., Alunni Fegatelli, D., Pugliese, F., Ravaux, J. M., Brodie, D., Abrams, D., Broman, L. M., Mueller, T., Taccone, F. S., Belliato, M., Dos Reis Miranda, D., Swol, J., Malfertheiner, M. V., Kowalewski, M., Peek, G. J., Hou, X., ... Lorusso, R. (2026). Conversion From Venovenous to Venoarterial or Hybrid Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation: Analysis From the Extracorporeal Life Support Organization Registry. Critical Care Medicine, 54(3), 532-547. https://doi.org/10.1097/CCM.0000000000007027
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