Name:
Professor Ursula Ravens HonFBPhS
Organisation:
Technische Universitat Dresden
Year elected:
2012
Primary professional setting:
Medical School and MD in Freiburg, Germany (1963-1969; Stretch-induced automaticity in primate myocardium)After internship in Berlin, postdoc and ‘Habilitation’ in Pharmacology at the University of Kiel (1979: Relationship between shape of the cardiac action potential and contractile force).Full professorship of Cardiovascular Pharmacology in Essen University (1985): Voltage clamp studies in human ventricular cardiomyocytes – drug effects.Chair of Pharmacology at Medical Faculty of TU Dresden (1997-2014): Atrial fibrillation: electrophysiological remodelling in human atrial cardiomyocytes; atrial-selective antiarrhythmic drugs; novel antiarrhythmic drugs; potential of various stem cells for cardiac differentiation. Senior professor at Institute of Cardiovascular Pharmacology, Heart Center Freiburg (since 2016, chair: Prof. Peter Kohl): Contribution of atrial fibroblasts to AF-induced remodelling processes. Active in various professional societies: Fellow: European Society of Cardiology, American Heart Association, International Society of Heart Research; Honorary Fellow: British Pharmacological Society.