Heart Diseases

Carola Förster, Professor of Molecular Medicine, Academic director for basic research at Clinics of Anaesthesia and critical care, Würzburg university hospital. Diploma in Biochemistry, PhD in Biochemistry, Institute of Biotechnology, Research Centre Jülich/ Institute of Biochemistry, University of Cologne, Germany. Post doc fellow 1999-00 Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY, and 2000-03, Department of Medical Nutrition, Karolinska Institute. 2007 lecture qualification for subject: Histology and Cell Biology. Present position: 2008- Associate professorship for Molecular Medicine, University hospital Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany. This position is devoted to lead and develop research in the field of molecular medicine. Her position as university professor includes supervision of MD and PhD-students and postdocs as well as teaching undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate level in the subjects of molecular medicine and molecular neurophysiology and cell biology. CF´s research has been mainly focused in studying cell physiology of the cerebral blood vessels and with a special emphasis on its permeability regulation at the level of transport processes and cellular adhesion molecules in physiology and disorders like Neuroinflammation, Ischemic brain injury, brain cancer, comorbidities of heart failure. CF is moreover devoted to characterization of the related neurovascular barriers in the eye and inner ear.

• Molecular cell biology • Molecular medicine • Bioinformatics and computational biology

Michiaki Nagai has completed his graduation from the Jichi Medical University School of Medicine and has been engaged in the Cardiovascular Medicine. Using volumetric analysis in MR SPGR imaging, he has been investigating the fields for target hypertensive organ damages including the relationships among hypertension, blood pressure variability, brain atrophy, cognitive impairment and central autonomic nervous system including the insular cortex. He was engaged in the Interventional Cardiology at Hiroshima City Asa Hospital as the Vice Director. He won the Japanese Society of Hypertension Award in the International Society of Hypertension 2006, the Young Investigator’s Award in the 8th Japanese Neurocardiology Workshop 2007 and Young Scientist Award in the second annual scientific forum of clinical hypertension of the Japanese Society of Hypertension 2013.

Hypertension Interventional Cardiology Cardiovascular Medicine

Mary Shibuya is an experienced native English medical editor/writer of 32 years living in Japan with a background in chemistry and allergy research at Mayo Clinic (Rochester, MN). For 23 years she was the language editor of the journal Internal Medicine, published by the Japanese Society of Internal Medicine. In addition to editing and preparing research articles for publication in international journals, she attended various medical/scientific congresses as Press (interviews, transcription, summarizing). She also enjoys lecturing on scientific medical writing in English to graduate schools and pharmaceutical companies. She strives to encourage ESL doctors/researchers to publish in English.

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Carola Förster, Professor of Molecular Medicine, Academic director for basic research at Clinics of Anaesthesia and critical care, Würzburg university hospital. Diploma in Biochemistry, PhD in Biochemistry, Institute of Biotechnology, Research Centre Jülich/ Institute of Biochemistry, University of Cologne, Germany. Post doc fellow 1999-00 Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY, and 2000-03, Department of Medical Nutrition, Karolinska Institute. 2007 lecture qualification for subject: Histology and Cell Biology. Present position: 2008- Associate professorship for Molecular Medicine, University hospital Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany. This position is devoted to lead and develop research in the field of molecular medicine. Her position as university professor includes supervision of MD and PhD-students and postdocs as well as teaching undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate level in the subjects of molecular medicine and molecular neurophysiology and cell biology. CF´s research has been mainly focused in studying cell physiology of the cerebral blood vessels and with a special emphasis on its permeability regulation at the level of transport processes and cellular adhesion molecules in physiology and disorders like Neuroinflammation, Ischemic brain injury, brain cancer, comorbidities of heart failure. CF is moreover devoted to characterization of the related neurovascular barriers in the eye and inner ear.

• Molecular cell biology • Molecular medicine • Bioinformatics and computational biology

Michiaki Nagai has completed his graduation from the Jichi Medical University School of Medicine and has been engaged in the Cardiovascular Medicine. Using volumetric analysis in MR SPGR imaging, he has been investigating the fields for target hypertensive organ damages including the relationships among hypertension, blood pressure variability, brain atrophy, cognitive impairment and central autonomic nervous system including the insular cortex. He was engaged in the Interventional Cardiology at Hiroshima City Asa Hospital as the Vice Director. He won the Japanese Society of Hypertension Award in the International Society of Hypertension 2006, the Young Investigator’s Award in the 8th Japanese Neurocardiology Workshop 2007 and Young Scientist Award in the second annual scientific forum of clinical hypertension of the Japanese Society of Hypertension 2013.

Hypertension Interventional Cardiology Cardiovascular Medicine

Mary Shibuya is an experienced native English medical editor/writer of 32 years living in Japan with a background in chemistry and allergy research at Mayo Clinic (Rochester, MN). For 23 years she was the language editor of the journal Internal Medicine, published by the Japanese Society of Internal Medicine. In addition to editing and preparing research articles for publication in international journals, she attended various medical/scientific congresses as Press (interviews, transcription, summarizing). She also enjoys lecturing on scientific medical writing in English to graduate schools and pharmaceutical companies. She strives to encourage ESL doctors/researchers to publish in English.

Medical writing