Bernard Swynghedauw#
| Membership Number: | 1284 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLINICAL & VETERINARY SCIENCE |
| Elected: | 1992 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
Present and Previous Positions
- Directeur de Recherches à l'INSERM emeritus, retired
- Directeur de Recherches à l'INSERM
Fields of Scholarship
- Molecular cardiology
- Qualitative phenotypic change in the overloaded myocardium
- Molecular biology in cardiology
- Adaptive changes in myocardial contractility
- Membrane proteins
- Myocardial autocrine function
- Increased oncogene expression in response to myocardial overload and during restenosis
- Evolutionary medicine
- Medical consequences of climate changes
Honours and Awards
- 1996 Prix de thèse CEDUS
- 1994 Peter Debye (University of Maastricht, NL
- 1996 Drieux-Cholet, Académie de Médecine Paris
- Corresponding member of the French Académie de Médecine
- 1992 Member of Academia Europeae
- Past-member of the executive Committee of European Society of Cardiology, ESC
- Past-president of the Federation of the European Societies of Physiology (FEPS)
