Patrick Turck
Federal University of Rio Grande, Brazil
Biography
Graduate in Biomedicine at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS, Brazil). During his graduation, worked at the Helmholtz Zentrum für Infektionsforschung (HZI, Germany) investigating the etiology of inflammatory bowel disease. In the Laboratory of Cardiovascular Physiology (UFRGS, Brazil), he completed his Masters, where studied the effects of the drug trapidil on pulmonary hypertension, and his PhD, which investigated the effects of blueberry extract on right cardiac remodeling in pulmonary arterial hypertension. At the moment, he is post-doc student in the Laboratory of Cardiovascular Physiology (UFRGS, Brazil). He has published 18 papers in reputed international journals.
Abstract
Abstract : Role of berries in preventing/treating cardiovascular conditions