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Title(s), initial(s), first name, surname: Nazha Hamdani, Ph.D.
DOCTORATE DEGREE (Ph.D.)
University/College of Higher Education: Cardiovascular Research (ICAR-VU), VU University Medical Center Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Master of Science degree (‘doctoral’)
University/College of Higher Education: Pharmaceutical Sciences, Free University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. August 31, 2006
Study/main subject: Pharmaceutical Sciences, Pharmacochemistry/Molecular Toxicology and Molecular Pharmacology
2020 Head of Molecular and Experimental Cardiology, Division Cardiology, St-Joseph Hospital, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany.
2020 Group Leader HCEMM-SU Cardiovascular Comorbidities Research Group; Semmelweis University Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy
2019 – Deputy of Nucleus of the Working Group of Myokardiale Funktion und Energetik – AG13 of German Cardiac Society.
2016– Deputy of Nucleus of the Working Group of Myocardial Function of the ESC and the representative of the Working Group
2017–2020 Independent Group Leader; Institute of Physiology, System Physiology, Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany.
2016–2017 Independent Group Leader; Institute of Physiology, Cardiovascular Physiology, Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany.
2011-2015 Associate Researcher; Institute of Physiology, Cardiovascular Physiology, Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany.
2011-2015 Assistant Professor; Laboratory for Physiology, Institute for Cardiovascular Research (ICaR-VU), VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Mar 2013 Guest Researcher, Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, Laboratory of Hypertensive Disease, Pamplona, Spain.
Nov 2011 Guest Researcher, Department of Physiology and Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Porto, Portugal.
Sep-Oct 2008 Faculty of Medicine, National Heart & Lung Institute division of Imperial College London, United Kingdom.
2005- 2009 PhD student; Institute for Cardiovascular Research (ICaR-VU), VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Aug 2006 MSc degree; Pharmaceutical Sciences, Free University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Aug 2005 Internship: Physiology, Laboratory for Physiology, Institute for Cardiovascular
2003-2004 Internship: Molecular Toxicology, Free University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Journalistic study (science journalist), Free University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
2003-2002 Post-graduate teacher training: Lectures studies to Biology and Chemistry studies, Free University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Internship: Cell Biology & Biomedical Chemistry, Free University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
2001 – 2002 Internship: Molecular Toxicology, Free University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
2000 – 2001 Internship: Medicinal Pharmacology, Free University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
2001-2005 Master of Science (MSc) study; Pharmaceutical Sciences, Free University Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Master specialisations: Pharmacochemistry
Aug 2000 Graduation Propaedeutic exam Pharmacochemistry & Chemistry. Free University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
1998-2000 Propaedeutic degree Pharmacochemistry & Chemistry. Free University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
1994-1998 Medicine study; Free University, Brussels, Belgium.
1994- 1998 Economy and Management study, High school of Economy and Management Organization, Brussels, Belgium
2013 – to date 8 PhD students (finished) and 10 PhD students (ongoing/currently)/ 6 Postdocs (currently)/ 4 MD students/ approx. 25 Master/Bachelor Students. Extra open positions for one post-doc and two PhD students from Jan 2022 in my lab.
Medical Faculty, Ruhr University Bochum, Institute of Physiology, Cardiovascular Physiology, Germany.
Medical Faculty, Laboratory for Physiology, Institute for Cardiovascular Research (ICaR-VU), VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Dr. Viola Corinne Roos (2014). Titin-Degradationsprodukte als potentielle Biomarker für Herzerkrankungen.
Dr. Constantijn Franssen (2017). Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction: The MEDIA Message.
Dr. Sophie Chen (2017). Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction from understanding the pathophysiology to treatment options based on sub-staging.
Dr. Martin Jan Breitkreuz (2017). Characterisierung des Redoxzustandes von Titin und Bedeutung der Titinoxidation für die Eigenschaften entfalteter Titindomäanen.
Melissa Herwig Msc (Nov 2020). Impact of cGMP-PKG Pathway Modulation on Titin Phosphorylation and Titin-Based Myocardial Passive Stiffness.
Detmar Kolijn Msc (Oct 2020). Potential targets of Heart Failure with preserved Ejection Fraction.
Roua Hassoun (Defense will be in Nov 2021). Mechanisms, Molecular, Cellular, and Clinical Aspects of Genetic Sarcomeric Mutations in Human Cardiomyopathies.
Heidi Budde (Defense will be in Nov 2021) Unraveling the Role of Inflammation and Oxidative Stress in Cardiovascular diseases development.
2005 – Physiology, Medical Faculty, Laboratory for Physiology, Institute for Cardiovascular Research (ICaR-VU), VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
2017– Institute of Physiology, Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany.
2011-2020 Invited lecturer at international Research institutions of cardiovascular within Europe:
– Medical Faculty, University of Porto, Portugal.
– Medical Faculty, Pamplona, Spain.
– National Institute of Cardiovascular Research (CNIC), Madrid, Spain.
– Department of Cardiology, Debrecen, Hungary.
– Experimental Cardiology Klinik für Kardiologie und Angiologie, Hannover, Germany
– Department of Molecular Cardiology, Heidelberg, Germany
– Department of Cardiology, Berlin, Germany
– Department of Cardiology Antwerp University Hospital (UZA) University of Antwerp (UA)
– Department of Cardiology, Regensburg, Germany
– Experimental Cardiology, Heidelberg, Germany
Invited Lectures/oral presentations
2020 Seminar at the Department of Cardiology, Berlin, Germany
2020 Frontiers in CardioVascular Biomedicine 2020 Congress (FCVB) from ESC, Budapest, Hungary
2020 Semmelweis University Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy, Budapest, Hungary
2019 Semmelweis Symposium, Budapest, Hungary
2019 Annual meeting of the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology, Athens, Greece
2019 HFA Winter Meeting on Translational Heart Failure Research, Switzerland, Les Diableretes
2019 European Society of Cardiology meeting
2018 Basic Science meeting German Cardiac Society
2018 The 35th meeting of the International Society of Heart Research, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2018 ESC Heart Failure meeting, Vienna, Austria
2018 Seminar University Hospital Regensburg, Germany
2018 Cardiovascular Research Days, Debrecen, Hungry
2017 Department of Cardiology Antwerp University Hospital (UZA) University of Antwerp (UA)
2017 Department of Cardiology, Berlin, Germany
2017 The European Society for Muscle Research Conference, Postdam, Germany
2017 Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kardiologie, Mannheim
2017 96th Annual Meeting of the German Physiology meeting, Greifswald, Germany
2017 The Biophysical Society 58th Annual Meeting in New Orleans
2017 Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Physiology, and Biomedical Engineering, Molecular Cardiovascular Research, University of Arizona, US
2017 Seminar at the Department of Cardiology and Angiology of the Hannover School of Medicine, Hannover, Germany
2017 HFA Winter Meeting on Translational Heart Failure Research, Switzerland, Les Diablerets
2016 6th World Congress of Oxidative Stress, Calcium Signalling & TRP Channels, Turkey
2016 Seminar at the Department of Molecular Cardiology, Heidelberg, Germany
2016 World Congress of International Society for Heart Research, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2016 Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kardiologie
2016 The Biophysical Society 57th Annual Meeting in Los Angles
2016 The 1st Cardiopulmonary Research Dialogue in Berlin, Germany
2016 Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Technical University Dresden, Germany
2015 International Society for Heart Research, Bordeaux, France
2015 The Biophysical Society 57th Annual Meeting in Baltimore
2015 Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kardiologie, Mannheim
2014 The European Society for Muscle Research Conference, Salzburg, Austria
2014 Seminar at the Department of Cardiology, Berlin, Germany
2014 Annual meeting of the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology, Athens, Greece
2014 Basic Science Meeting of the DGK in Düsseldorf, Germany
2014 Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kardiologie, Mannheim
2014 German Physiological Society Annual Meeting, Mainz, Germany
2013 Internatl. Conference Myofibrillar Z-disk Structure and Dynamics, Hamburg, Germany
2011-2015 Annual Meeting of MEDIA-FP7, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2013 Heart failure ESC meeting, Lisbon, Portugal
2013 Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kardiologie, Mannheim
2013 The Biophysical Society 57th Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, USA
2013 Seminar at the Department of Cardiology, Debrecen, Hungary
2013 Seminar at the Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, Laboratory of Hypertensive Disease, Pamplona 2013 German Physiological Society Annual Meeting, Heidelberg, Germany
2013 Dutch-German Joint Meeting of the Molecular Cardiology Groups, Heidelberg, Germany
2012 American Heart Association Meeting, Los Angles, USA
2012 The Biophysical Society 56th Annual Meeting in San Diego, USA
2012 German Cardiology Fall Meeting, Hamburg, Germany
2012 German Physiological Society Annual Meeting, Dresden, Germany
2011 International Society for Heart Research, Haifa, Israel
2011 The European Society for Muscle Research Conference, Berlin, Germany
2011 American Heart Association Meeting, Orlando, USA
2011 Seminar at the Department of Physiology and Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Porto, Portugal
2010 The Joint Meeting of the Scandinavian and German Physiological Societies
2010 American Heart Association Meeting, Chicago, USA
2009 Seminar at the Department of Physiology, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA
2008 American Heart Association Meeting, New Orleans, USA
2007 American Heart Association Meeting, Orlando, USA
2011-2019 Heart Failure meeting European Society of Cardiology
2012-2018 The Biophysical Society Annual Meeting
2010-2019 German Cardiology Society Spring Meeting
2010- 2020 Heart Failure Winter Research Meetings
2010-2017 German Physiological Society Meetings
2011-2018 International Society for Heart Research Meeting
2010- 2019 European Society for Muscle Research Conferences
2009- 2020 European Society of Cardiology Annual congresses
2006-2017 American Heart Association Scientific Sessions
2006 European Physiological Society Meeting
2017 European Society for Muscle Research Conferences, Potsdam, 09/2017
2017 Symposium “The metabolic road to understanding Heart Failure with preserved Ejection Eraction”,
Amsterdam, 02/2017
2016- Session of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) meeting
2016- Session of Heart Failure Association ESC meeting
2011-now Co-chair international meetings: European Society of Cardiology, International Society of Heart Research, Annual meeting of The Biophysical Society, European Society for Muscle Research, World Congress of Oxidative Stress, and Diastolic heart failure meeting / Conference on Diastolic heart failure meeting/ >150 participants / Amsterdam and Leiden.
2010 – Organizer of the Internal Seminar series, inviting national speakers from all Germany to give seminars. 2 to 3 speakers a month. Many Institutions/ Germany.
2020 – 1st price presentation in FORUM science day RUB (The impact of oxidative stress on aggregation and function of skeletal and cardiac muscle proteins).
2019 – Young Investigator award from Melissa Herwig (former PhD student in my group, post-doc in my group now) From Heart Failure association (Phosphorylation and oxidation of CaMKII modulate diastolic function).
2018 – 1st price poster presentation from Melissa Herwig (former PhD student in my group, post-doc in my group now) in German Cardiology Meeting (CaMKII interaction with PKG).
– 1st price poster presentation from Maria Lodi (former group member) in FORUM science day Bochum (Distinct signaling pathways in RV vs. LV from HFpEF patients).
2017: 2nd price poster presentation from Melissa Herwig (former PhD student in my group, post-doc in my group now) in German Cardiology Meeting (Cardiac stiffness modulation by cGMP).
2016 – 1st price presentation science day at RUB (Oxidation of proteins in Heart Failure)
2013 – Franz-Maximilian-Groedel-Forschungspreis
– Poster presentation price, ISHR meeting, USA
2012 – Award, Early Career Researchers of Ruhr University Bochum.
– Award, Science and Technology Foundation.
– Two oral presentation price, Diastolic Heart Failure Meeting
– Poster price, German Cardiology Society Spring Meeting
2011 – Publications price, the Netherlands Organization for scientific research.
– Teacher Prize, best teacher of the year
2010 – Hamburger award, (The best PhD thesis of 2009 from The Dutch Society of Physiology)
– Grant, V Coeverden Adriani foundation award (For postdoctoral fellowship abroad) – Dutch Cardiovascular award (The best PhD thesis of 2009 in The Netherlands)
– Travel grant, American Heart Association
– Pfizer award and Pfizer travel grant
– Teacher Prize, best teacher of the year
2009 – Award, European Society of Cardiology ((2 years postdoctoral fellowship abroad))
2006 – Oral presentation price, Institute for Cardiovascular Research VUMC and Leiden Vascular Medicine LUMC
(ICaR-VU & LVM) scientific day
2001 – Poster presentation price, symposium for bachelor students, VU University, Pharmaceutical sciences
American Heart Association
European Society for Muscle Research meeting
European Society of Cardiology
Biophysical Society
German Physiological Society
German Society of Cardiology
International Society of Heart Research
Activities on knowledge management (translation of results for the public, participation of patients in the research, etc.): Co-author of several “position papers” of the ESC and ESC CardioTalk. Live interviews for radio stations (e.g., Dutch science, 2015), Newspapers 2013-2017, Science journals (e.g., Circulation, 2011; Nature, 2015), and Knowledge distribution publications (e.g., International Innovation, 2015-2021). Regular press releases by Cardiovascular Physiology, Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany (RUB) and Free University Medical Center Amsterdam The Netherlands (VUmc).
Reviewer activities for: Reviewer for 20 different journals Nature Medicine, Circulation, Circulation Research, Circulation Heart Failure, Journal of Physiology, Cardiovascular Research, Journal of Molecular Cell Cardiology, European Heart Journal,European Journal of Heart Failure, Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology, Biochemistry Research International, Basic Research in Cardiology, Pflügers Archiv European Journal of Physiology, American Journal of Physiology – Heart and Circulatory Physiology, Journal of Physiology Cellular Physiology and Biochemistry.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 739593. HCEMM supported by EU Programme: H2020-EU.4.a. – Teaming of excellent research institutions and low performing RDI regions. Project starting date was 1 April 2017.
