PEOPLE - Changes at JenaValve Technology:
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
Germany's JenaValve Technology has established a scientific advisory board, appointing eight members with immediate effect. It is headed by Professor Hans-Reiner Figulla, a cardiologist and co-founder and inventor at the Munich-based minimally-invasive aortic valve replacement systems developer. The other members are: fellow co-founder and inventor Dr Markus Ferrari; stent catheter consultant Dr Younes Boudjemline (Necker Hospital, Paris); Professor Junbo Ge, co-chair of the Shanghai Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases and president of the Shanghai Society of Cardiology; Professor Martin Rothman, director of cardiac R&D at London's Barts hospital; Professor Ziyad Hijazi, of Chicago's Rush University; Professor Jan Gummert, director of cardiothoracic surgery at Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany; and Professor Horst Sievert, director of the CardioVascular Center, Frankfurt.