Professor Karin Sipido

Karin Sipido, MD, PhD, is Emeritus Professor at the Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, KU Leuven. She trained in internal medicine and cardiology, and continued a career in basic and translational research, with focus on cellular mechanisms of heart failure and arrhythmias, in an interdisciplinary collaboration. She is an elected member of the Academia Europaea, Fellow of the International Society for Heart Research, and Fellow of the ESC. She was Editor-in Chief of Cardiovascular Research and serves on the editorial board of leading international journals. She takes an active interest in research policy, serving in various positions at KU Leuven, at European and international level. She has chaired the European Commission’s Scientific Panel for Health, and she is member of the Scientific Advisory Board of ORE, the European Commission’s Open Research Platform. She acts as advisor to the ESC’s Advocacy Committee. She is member of the Ethics Committee Research at UZ Leuven.