of Stefan Janssens

Prof. Dr. Stefan Janssens obtained his medical degree in 1984 from the University of Leuven, Belgium, summa um laude, and finished his clinical cardiology fellowship at Gasthuisberg University Hospital, Leuven, Belgium. He subsequently obtained an international John E. Fogarty fellowship from the NIH (Bethesda, MD, USA) to continue his studies in cardiovascular medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University in Boston from 1989-1992 and was appointed Professor of Medicine in 2002 at KU Leuven and Chairman of the Department of Cardiovascular Diseases in 2010. 
His clinical interest focuses on cardiac intensive care and his research is primarily directed towards translational studies on myocardial dysfunction and cardiac repair. The prime research in the laboratory focuses on different progenitor cell populations, on the Nitric Oxide (NO) / cyclicGMP signaling system, and on therapeutic interventions in patients with ischemic heart disease and reduced left ventricular function.