Karin Rose Sipido#
| Membership Number: | 3244 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2012 |
| Main Country of Residence: | BELGIUM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.kuleuven.be/wieiswie/en/person/u0011695 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2024 Open Science Ambassador KU Leuven @ LERU
- 2023 Emeritus Professor, Faculty Medicine, Dept. of Cardiovascular Sciences, KU Leuven, BE
- 2002 - 2023 Full Professor, Faculty Medicine, Dept. of Cardiovascular Sciences, KU Leuven, BE
- 2004 - 2006 Visiting Professor, Medical Physiology, University of Utrecht, NL
- 1998 - 2001 Associate Professor, Dept. of Medicine, Div. Cardiology, University of Leuven, BE
- 1995 - 1998 Assistant Professor, University of Leuven, BE; consultant, Div. of Cardiology, University of Maastricht, NL
- 1994 - 1998 Clinical consultant, Div. of Cardiology, Echocardiography, University Hospital, Leuven, BE
- 1992 - 1998 Postdoctoral Researcher N.F.W.O. (Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research)
- 1991 - 1992 Research Fellow, Laboratory of Physiology, University of Leuven, BE
- 1990 Research Fellow, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA. (Dr. E. Marban)
- 1989 Research Associate, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, USA. (Dr. W.G. Wier)
- 1982 - 1988 Clinical Fellow / Research Assistant in Internal Medicine and Cardiology, University of Antwerp
Fields of Scholarship
- Cardiac cellular electrophysiology
- Calcium homeostasis
- Cellular remodeling in cardiac hypertrophy and heart failure
- Cellular mechanisms of arrhythmias
Honours and Awards
- 2025 Wallace Fenn Lecture Award, IUPS
- 2024 Gold Medal, European Society of Cardiology
- 2023 Fellow of the International Union of Physiological Sciences, IUPS
- 2019 Silver Medal, European Society of Cardiology
- 2018 Gago Award in European Science Policy, Min. of Science, Portugal
- 2018 Carmeliet-Coraboeuf- Weidmann Award lecture, EWGCCE, ESC
- 2016 Honorary member Hungarian Society of Cardiology
- 2015 Hodgkin-Huxley-Katz prize lecture, the Physiological Society, UK
- 2014 ICIN, Interuniversity Cardiology Institute Netherlands, Visiting Professor
- 2013 Keith Reimer Lecture & Award, International Society for Heart Research
- 2012 Elected member of the Academia Europaea
- 2010 Fellow of the International Society for Heart Research
- 2009 William Harvey Lecture, European Society of Cardiology
- 2008 Fellow of the American Heart Association
- 2001 Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology
- 1996 Prize Dr. Karel Verleysen, Royal Academy of Medicine, Belgium
- 1988 - 1990 Fullbright Scholar, U.S.A.
- 1982 Special Prize, Medical Faculty, University of Antwerp
