Niels Riksen - Curriculum Vitae#
Academic position
- 2014 Full Professor in Vascular Medicine, Radboudumc
- 2019 - 2021 Acting Head department of Internal Medicine.
- 2010 Internist, vascular medicine specialist, Radboudumc, Nijmegen
- 2007 - 2008 Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Hatter Cardiovascular Institute, University College London, United Kingdom
- 2002 - 2010 Resident in Internal Medicine, Radboudumc
Education
- 2007 Ph.D. (cum laude), Clinical Pharmacology, Radboud University Nijmegen
- 2002 Medical Degree, Radboud University Nijmegen (cum laude)
Other academic roles
- 2021 Elected Nuclear Member Working group on Atherosclerosis & Vascular Biology, European Society of Cardiology
- 2016 Editorial Board Member, Atherosclerosis
- 2017 - 2019 Chair “National society of vascular medicine”
- 2015 - 2017 Committee member Health Council, committee on Medicalisation
Selection obtained funding (after 2015)
- 2023 Stress and immune reprogramming. PPG National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. $11.5 million, PI Zahi Fayad. Riksen co-PI Radboudumc ($1.25 M)
- 2022 Inflammation and Small Vessel Disease, British & Dutch Heart Foundation (Riksen co-PI, €1.8 M euro, €500 k euro Radboudumc)
- 2019 CVON IN-CONTROL Dutch Heart Foundation (€3 M, PI with prof. F. Kuipers)
- 2018 ERA-CVD consortium grant “MEMORY” (PI, €870 k, with LIMES Bonn and INSERM Paris)
- 2015 Horizon 2020 grant REPROGRAM (€6 M, WP leader)
Selection of invited plenary lectures (past 5 years)
- 2024 88th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Japanese Circulation Society, Kobe, Japan
- 2022 Scientific Sessions, American Heart Association, Chicago.
- 2022 European Society of Cardiology Congress, Barcelona
- 2022 Keystone Symposium Innate Immune Memory, Banff, Canada
- 2021 Joint Dutch & German Vascular Biology Meeting, Goettingen, Germany
- 2019 Keynote lecture, 2019 DOHaD World Congress, Melbourne, Australia
- 2018 Gordon Research Conference, Epigenomics of Diabetes and Other Metabolic Diseases, Hong Kong
Publication list
212 publications, H-index (Web of Science) 48; Google scholar 57