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Associate Professor Yannick Taverne

Erasmus University Medical Centre, Rotterdam (Netherlands (The))

Yannick Taverne is working as a congenital cardiac surgeon at the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He is head of the Translational Cardiothoracic Surgery Research Lab and founder of the Lowlands Institute for Bioelectric Medicine. His research focusses on excitation-contraction-coupling within the subset of congenital heart disease and heart failure. Current projects include right ventricular form and function in congenital heart disease, ex-vivo heart perfusion as research model and as transplant adjunct (DCD heart donation), and the use of a biomimetic culture system using living myocardial slices.

Presentations

Living myocardial slices as innovative screening platform for patient specific heart failure therapies

Event: Heart Failure 2023

Topic: Pharmacotherapy

Session: ePosters in acute heart failure 9

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Biomechanical response of myosin modulator mavacamten in ultrathin slices of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Event: Heart Failure 2023

Topic: Cardiomyopathies

Session: ePosters in basic science 2

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