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Professorship Julie Staals

Professorship Julie Staals

22 April 2024

Dr Julie Staals (Dept. of Neurology) has been appointed as professor 'Neurovascular disease' as of 1 April 2024.

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ERC Advanced Grant awarded to Prof. Andy Baker

ERC Advanced Grant awarded to Prof. Andy Baker

15 April 2024

Prof. Andy Baker (Dept of Pathology) has been awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant of €2,5M for his research project PolymiRize: Poly-miRNA targeting to prevent and reverse complex tissue remodelling after acute cardiovascular events'.

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Michael Jacobs

Professor

Prof. Michael Jacobs has obtained his medical doctor degree at the University of Limburg, Maastricht. His PhD research focussed on microcirculation in patients with peripheral arterial disease. Following his surgical residency, he was trained as a cardiovascular surgeon at the Texas Heart Institute in Houston, USA. He was appointed chief of vascular surgery at the Amsterdam Medical Center in 1992 and started research programmes concentrating on assessment of spinal cord function in thoraco-abdominal aortic aneurysm (TAAA) repair and preventive strategies by means of selective organ perfusion and motor evoked potentials. In 2000, he was invited to Maastricht UMC+ to chair the Department of Surgery and create an integrated heart- and vascular center (HVC). Research addressed pre-operative imaging of the blood supplying arteries of the spinal cord in TAAA patients, and the role of arginine and nitric oxide (NO) metabolism in patients undergoing extensive aortic repair. In 2005, he also accepted the chair of Vascular Surgery at the RWTH University Hospital in Aachen, Germany.

He yearly organises the European Vascular Course, hosting around 2,000 cardiovascular specialists from all over the world.

Michael-jacobs

Department of Vascular Surgery
P. Debyelaan 25, 6229 HX Maastricht 
PO Box 5800, 6202 AZ Maastricht                                                                                                      T: +31(0)43 387 22 79

  • 2010
    • Bosman, W.-M. P. F., van der Steenhoven, T. J., Suarez, D. R., Valstar, E. R., de Vries, A. C., Brom, H. L. F., Jacobs, M. J., & Hamming, J. F. (2010). The effect of injectable biocompatible elastomer (PDMS) on the strength of the proximal fixation of endovascular aneurysm repair grafts: An in vitro study. Journal of Vascular Surgery, 52(1), 152-158. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvs.2010.01.026
    • Bosman, W.-M. P. F., van der Steenhoven, T. J., Hinnen, J.-W., Kaptein, B. L., de Vries, A. C., Brom, H. L. F., Jacobs, M. J., & Hamming, J. F. (2010). Aortic Customize: A new alternative endovascular approach to aortic aneurysm repair using injectable biocompatible elastomer. An in vitro study. Journal of Vascular Surgery, 51(5), 1230-1237. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvs.2009.08.093
    • Vermeulen Windsant, I. C., Snoeijs, M. G., Hanssen, S. J. P., Altintas, S., Heijmans, J. H., Koeppel, T. A., Schurink, G. W. H., Buurman, W. A., & Jacobs, M. J. H. M. (2010). Hemolysis is associated with acute kidney injury during major aortic surgery.Kidney International, 77(10), 913-920. https://doi.org/10.1038/ki.2010.24
    • Speelman, L., Schurink, G. W. H., Bosboom, E. M. H., Buth, J., Breeuwer, M., de Vosse, F. N. V., & Jacobs, M. H. (2010). The mechanical role of thrombus on the growth rate of an abdominal aortic aneurysm. Journal of Vascular Surgery, 51(1), 19-26. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvs.2009.08.075
  • 2009
    • Tintu, A., Rouwet, E., Verlohren, S., Brinkmann, J., Ahmad, S., Crispi, F., van Bilsen, M., Carmeliet, P., Staff, A. C., Tjwa, M., Cetin, I., Gratacos, E., Hernandez Andrade, E., Hofstra, L., Jacobs, M. J., Lamers, W. H., Morano, I., Safak, E., Ahmed, A., & le Noble, F. (2009). Hypoxia induces dilated cardiomyopathy in the chick embryo: mechanism, intervention, and long-term consequences. PLOS ONE, 4(4), Article e5155. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0005155
  • 2008
    • Hanssen, S. J., Derikx, J. P., Vermeulen Windsant, I. C., Heijmans, J. H., Koeppel, T. A., Schurink, G. W., Buurman, W. A., & Jacobs, M. J. (2008). Visceral injury and systemic inflammation in patients undergoing extracorporeal circulation during aortic surgery. Annals of Surgery, 248(1), 117-25. https://doi.org/10.1097/SLA.0b013e3181784cc5
  • 2005
    • Heemskerk, J. W. M., van Dam, R. M., van Gemert, W. G., Beets, G. L., Greve, J. W., Jacobs, M. J., & Bouvy, N. D. (2005). First results after introduction of the four-armed da Vinci Surgical System in fully robotic laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Digestive Surgery, 22(6), 426-431. https://doi.org/10.1159/000091445
    • de Feiter, P. W., Jacobs, J. A., Jacobs, M. J., Vink, C., & van der Geest, S. (2005). Successful treatment of Staphylococcus epidermidis prosthetic valve endocarditis with linezolid after failure of treatment with oxacillin, gentamicin, rifampicin, vancomycin, and fusidic acid regimens. Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 37(3), 173-176. https://doi.org/10.1080/00365540410021018
    • de Feiter, P. W., van Mook, W. N., & Jacobs, M. J. (2005). Tracheal compression caused by an innominate artery aneurysm after thoracic aortic aneurysm repair in a patient with Marfan disease. Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 129(4), 943-944. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtcvs.2004.08.017
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