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ESC Working Group on Cardiovascular Regenerative and Reparative Medicine

 

The Mission of the ESC Working Group on Cardiovascular Regenerative and Reparative Medicine is to improve our knowledge and to develop therapies in this field through the synergy of basic discoveries and translational clinical efforts from dedicated centres all around the world, by:

  • Establishing the priorities and goals of discovery and development for the next decade,
  • (Re)defining cardiovascular regeneration-based advanced therapies
  • Attaining and disseminating an umbrella agreement on a common strategy to reinforce the field.

Our Working Group was featured in the November 2023 edition of CardioPulse in the European Heart Journal. Read about the emergence of cardiovascular regenerative and reparative medicine (CARE), which led to the creation of our Working Group in 2017.

Objectives 

To promote the progress in regenerating injured human organs, by leveraging collective efforts in basic discoveries, in the creation of better regenerative products and technologies, in better preclinical models, and in large clinical trials that will lead to rapid advances in the search for effective therapies in humans.

To promote a network of professionals, clinicians and scientists involved in the development and validation of advanced therapies for cardiovascular regeneration.

Nucleus 2022-2024

Chairperson

Assoc. Prof. Giulio Pompilio, FESC
Centro Cardiologico Monzino IRCCS Scientific Direction
CV Surgery
Via Parea 4,
20138 Milan
Italy
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Chairperson-Elect

Dr. Ricardo Sanz-Ruiz
Spain
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Past-Chairperson

Prof. Stefan Janssens
University Hospital Gasthuisberg of Leuven
Cardiovascular Diseases
49 Herestraat
Leuven 3000
Belgium
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Secretary and Treasurer

Prof. Joost Sluijter, FESC
The Netherlands
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Communication Coordinator

Dr. Marie-Noelle Giraud
Switzerland
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Ordinary Nucleus Members

Dr. Antje Ebert
Germany
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Dr. Monika Gladka
The Netherlands
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Assoc. Prof. Massimiliano Gnecchi, FESC
Italy
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Prof. Jonathan Leor, FESC
Israel
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Prof. Piotr Musialek, FESC
Poland
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Prof. Jerome Roncalli
France
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Prof. Wolfram-Hubertus Zimmermann
Germany
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Non-voting Nucleus members

Prof. Thomas Eschenhagen, FESC
Germany
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Prof. Francisco Fernandez-Aviles, FESC
Spain
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Prof. Phillippe Menasché
France
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Prof. Nicola Smart
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 
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