Professor Niels van Royen

From 2010 till 2017 he served as professor of interventional Cardiology at the VU University, masterdom, the Netherlands, after which he was appointed as Chief of Cardiology at the Radboud University in Nijmegen.He has dedicated his scientific career to translational research focusing on repair mechanisms in ischemic heart disease, collateral artery growth and no reflow. Also he has initiated several multi-center clinical trials like the TRANSIENT, COACT, REDUCE-MVI and iMODERN. These trials focus on timing of interventional procedures as well as the use of intra-coronary physiology to guide interventional procedures both in stable coronary artery disease as well as acute coronary syndromes.