Stephane Heymans

Professor

Stephane Heymans is Professor of Cardiomyopathies and Head of the Centre for Heart Failure Research, Department of Cardiology, Maastricht University. He obtained his Medical Degree from the KU Leuven (Belgium) in 1995 and went on to get a PhD in Medical Sciences in 2000, studying the role of proteinases in acute myocardial infarction. In 2003, he joined the Department of Cardiology of Maastricht UMC+ as an academic medical specialist and in 2006 he took over the Multidisciplinary Cardiomyopathy Program (Genetics, Immunology, Microbiology and Pathology departments).

In 2008, he established his independent research laboratory at Cardiovascular Research Institute Maastricht. His research interests focus on the molecular mechanisms of heart failure, looking at the interplay between inflammatory cells, fibroblasts and cardiomyocytes. Particular focus is on the role of non-structural matrix proteins, matrix turnover and non-coding RNAs.

Furthermore, he is Professor of 'Inflammation and Matrix Biology in Cardiomyopathies' at the University of Leuven and he is a board member of the ESC Heart Failure Association, ESC Working Group of Myocardial Function, ESC Heart Failure Association Committee on Diastolic Heart Failure and ESC Heart Failure Association Committee on Translational Research.

Website www.hfresearch.eu

Department of Cardiology
Universiteitssingel 50, 6229 ER Maastricht
PO Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht
Room number: G3.230
T: +31(0)43 388 43 04

2024
- Heymans, S., Van Linthout, S., Kraus, S. M., Cooper, L. T., & Ntusi, N. A. B. (2024). Clinical Characteristics and Mechanisms of Acute Myocarditis. Circulation Research, 135(2), 397-411. https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.124.324674
- Falcao-Pires, I., Ferreira, A. F., Trindade, F., Bertrand, L., Ciccarelli, M., Visco, V., Dawson, D., Hamdani, N., Van Laake, L. W., Lezoualc'h, F., Linke, W. A., Lunde, I. G., Rainer, P. P., Abdellatif, M., van der Velden, J., Cosentino, N., Paldino, A., Pompilio, G., Zacchigna, S., ... Tocchetti, C. G. (2024). Mechanisms of myocardial reverse remodelling and its clinical significance: A scientific statement of the ESC Working Group on Myocardial Function. European journal of heart failure. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejhf.3264
- Wiethoff, I., Sikking, M., Evers, S., Gabrio, A., Henkens, M., Michels, M., Verdonschot, J., Heymans, S., & Hiligsmann, M. (2024). Quality of life and societal costs in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy. European heart journal - Quality of care & clinical outcomes, 10(4), 334-344. Article qcad056. https://doi.org/10.1093/ehjqcco/qcad056
- Yu, Y.-L., Siwy, J., An, D.-W., González, A., Hansen, T., Latosinska, A., Pellicori, P., Ravassa, S., Mariottoni, B., Verdonschot, J. A., Ahmed, F., Petutschnigg, J., Rossignol, P., Heymans, S., Cuthbert, J. J., Girerd, N., Clark, A. L., Verhamme, P., Nawrot, T. S., ... HOMAGE investigators (2024). Urinary proteomic signature of mineralocorticoid receptor antagonism by spironolactone: evidence from the HOMAGE trial. Heart, Article heartjnl-2023-323796. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1136/heartjnl-2023-323796
- Sikking, M. A., Stroeks, S. L. V. M., Henkens, M. T. H. M., Raafs, A. G., Cossins, B., van Deuren, R. C., Steehouwer, M., Riksen, N. P., van den Wijngaard, A., Brunner, H. G., Hoischen, A., Verdonschot, J. A. J., & Heymans, S. R. B. (2024). Clonal Hematopoiesis has Prognostic Value in Dilated Cardiomyopathy independent of Age and Clone Size. JACC: Heart Failure, 12(5), 905-914. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jchf.2023.06.037
- Kobayashi, M., Ferreira, J. P., Kevin, D., Bresso, E., Huttin, O., Bozec, E., Brunner La Rocca, H.-P., Delles, C., Clark, A. L., Edelmann, F., González, A., Heymans, S., Pellicori, P., Petutschnigg, J., Verdonschot, J. A. J., Rossignol, P., Cleland, J. G. F., Zannad, F., Girerd, N., & HOMAGE Trial Committees and Investigators (2024). Proteomic profiles of left atrial volume and its influence on response to spironolactone: Findings from the HOMAGE trial and STANISLAS cohort. European journal of heart failure, 26(5), 1231-1241. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejhf.3202
- Verdonschot, J. A. J., Hellebrekers, D. M. E. I., van Empel, V. P. M., Heijligers, M., de Munnik, S., Coonen, E., Dreesen, J. C. M. F., van den Wijngaard, A., Brunner, H. G., Zamani Esteki, M., Heymans, S. R. B., de Die-Smulders, C. E. M., & Paulussen, A. D. C. (2024). Clinical Guideline for Preimplantation Genetic Testing in Inherited Cardiac Diseases. Circulation: Genomic and Precision Medicine, 17(2), Article E004416. https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCGEN.123.004416
- Verdonschot, J. A. J., & Heymans, S. R. B. (2024). Dilated cardiomyopathy: second hits knock-down the heart. European Heart Journal, 45(7), 500-501. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehad778
- Santos-Ferreira, D., Diaz, S. O., Ferreira, J. P., Girerd, N., Pellicori, P., Mariottoni, B., Cosmi, F., Hazebroek, M., Verdonschot, J. A. J., Cuthbert, J., Petutschnigg, J., Heymans, S., Staessen, J. A., Pieske, B., Edelmann, F., Clark, A. L., Rossignol, P., Fontes-Carvalho, R., Cleland, J. G. F., & Zannad, F. (2024). Phenotyping patients with ischaemic heart disease at risk of developing heart failure: an analysis of the HOMAGE trial. Esc heart failure, 11(1), 209-218. https://doi.org/10.1002/ehf2.14465
- Shanbagh, S., Gadde, S. G., Shetty, R., Heymans, S., Abilash, V. G., Chaurasia, S. S., & Ghosh, A. (2024). Hyperglycemia-induced miR182-5p drives glycolytic and angiogenic response in Proliferative Diabetic Retinopathy and RPE cells via depleting FoxO1. Experimental Eye Research, 238, Article 109713. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exer.2023.109713

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