Niels Riksen#
| Membership Number: | 6891 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLINICAL & VETERINARY SCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2024 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.radboudumc.nl/en/people/niels-riksen |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-9197-8124 |
| Twitter: | @NielsPR |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2014 - current Full professor of Vascular Medicine, Radboud university medical center (Radboudumc). Head Division of Vascular Medicine.
- 2019 - 2020 Head of Department of Internal Medicine ad interim (1.5 years), Radboudumc
- 2017 - 2019:Chair "Internistisch Vasculair Genootschap" (IVG; national society for vascular medicine)
- 2010 Internist, specialist in Vascular Medicine, Radboudumc
- 2002 - 2010 Combined residency Internal Medicine & PhD in clinical Pharmacology, Radboudumc
- 2007 - 2008 Postdoctoral research fellow Hatter Cardiovascular Institute, University College London, UK (1 year)
Fields of Scholarship
- Innate immune cell reprogramming, metabolic and epigenetic reprogramming
- Atherosclerosis pathophysiology
- Innate immune memory, trained innate immunity
- Inflammation
Honours and Awards
- 2008 Vascular Medicine Award of the Dutch Society for Vascular Medicine and MSD (NVVG-MSD)
- 2008 Award for best Ph.D. thesis by the Dutch Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Biopharmacy (NVKF&B)
- 2008 Einthoven Award 2008 (“Einthoven Dissertatieprijs”) for best Ph.D. thesis by the Dutch Heart Foundation and the Interuniversity Cardiology Institute of the Netherlands (ICIN)
- 2006 Excellence3 Award from the Netherlands Foundation for Cardiovascular Excellence because of clinical, scientific, and presenting excellence (30 k Euro)
