Yigal Pinto
Chief Scientific Officer
Molecular Biology
Mirnext
Netherlands
Biography
Yigal Pinto was trained as a cardiologist at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands and he holds a PhD from the same university. He is also trained in molecular biology and genetics of the heart at Harvard Medical School, Boston (USA) and at the Max Delbruck Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin (Germany). His main interest is the molecular genetics of heart failure. From 2001-2007 he was staff cardiologist at the University of Maastricht and in 2005 he was appointed as Full Professor of Cardiology. He discovered the heart failure biomarker galectin-3. In 2008 he moved to the AMC in Amsterdam to become the scientific director of the Heart Center. Yigal is an established investigator of the Netherlands Heart Foundation.
Research Interest
Molecular Biology
