Professor Asselbergs MD PhD FESC is Professor of Precision Medicine in Cardiovascular Disease at UCL Institute of Health Informatics and Institute of Cardiovascular Science, Director of NIHR BRC Clinical and Research Informatics Unit, Professor of Cardiovascular Genetics, Consultant Cardiologist, Chair Center for Circulatory Health at University Medical Center Utrecht, and Chair Data Research Infrastructure Dutch CardioVascularAlliance. Folkert is scientific coordinator IMI BigData@Heart consortium (www.bigdata-heart.eu), which aims to deliver clinically relevant disease cardiovascular phenotypes, scalable insights from real-world evidence and insights driving drug development and personalized medicine through advanced big-data analytics. He has published more than 350 scientific papers and obtained funding from Erasmus Plus, leDucq foundation, British and Dutch Heart Foundation, Horizon 2020, IMI, ERA-CVD, and RO1 National Institutes of Health. He is member of a large number of consortia and (co-)founded several consortia such as igenetrain (www.igenetrain.net), www.capacity-covid.eu and GENIUS-CHD (www.genius-chd.org).
