Rate My Professor Derek Hausenloy

Professor Derek John Hausenloy is the Tanoto Foundation Professor in Cardiovascular Medicine at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He holds the position of Professor in the Cardiovascular & Metabolic Disorders Signature Programme at Duke-NUS Medical School. He also serves as Director of the National Heart Research Institute Singapore (NHRIS) at the National Heart Centre Singapore (NHCS), where he is a Senior Consultant in the Department of Cardiology. Additionally, he is Professor at the Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, University College London, and Academic Vice Chair (Research) of the SingHealth Duke-NUS Cardiovascular Sciences Academic Clinical Programme since May 2021.

His academic background includes a PhD from University College London in 2004, an MBChB (Honours) from the University of Manchester in 1996, and a BSc in Biomedical Sciences (First Class Honours) in 1993. Professor Hausenloy conducts basic, translational, and clinical research focused on ischaemic heart disease, heart failure, cardioprotection, and cardiac MRI, with a primary emphasis on developing novel therapies to protect the heart against acute ischaemia/reperfusion injury and heart failure. He has led more than 40 research grants totaling over $40 million and authored over 400 scientific papers. His honors include the NMRC STaR Investigator Award in 2021, the Duke-NUS Dean’s Excellence Award in Research in 2019, recognition as a Highly Cited Researcher in 2018, 2020, and 2021, and a Doctor Honoris Causa from Semmelweis University in 2019. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, the European Society of Cardiology, the American College of Cardiology, and the International Society of Heart Research. Professor Hausenloy chairs the EU-CARDIOPROTECTION COST Action and is a member of the ESC Council on Basic Cardiovascular Science.

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