Prof. Stephane Heymans

FESC, FHFA

Stephane Heymans is Professor of Cardiomyopathies at the Maastricht University Medical Centre and head of Heart Failure Research (2009), Professor of Inflammation and Matrix Biology at the University of Leuven, Cardiovascular Research Department, Belgium (2011). His research focuses on genetic and molecular (inflammatory, fibrotic & metabolic) mechanisms in non-ischemic cardiomyopathies (including HFPEF, myocarditis and dilated cardiomyopathies).

He is (and has been) the chair of different European committees and working groups in the field of myocarditis and cardiomyopathies.