Art Schuermans is a medical student at KU Leuven and an affiliated researcher with the Broad Insitute of MIT and Harvard. From 2022 to 2023, he served as a predoctoral research fellow at the Center for Genomic Medicine and the Cardiovascular Research Center of the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He also has a research affiliation with the Cardiovascular Clinical Research Facility at the University of Oxford. Art's research focuses on understanding the causal and modifiable mechanisms underlying cardiovascular disease risk throughout the entire lifespan. Specifically, he aims to (1) understand how perinatal and early-life events such as preterm birth or hypertensive disorders of pregnancy contribute to long-term offspring and maternal cardiovascular disease; (2) gain insights into pathways linking aging with cardiovascular diseases (e.g., via somatic mutations and inflammation); and (3) contribute to precision medicine approaches in the context of life course prevention.