Centre of Excellence: Charité Centre for Cardiovascular Medicine, Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany Showing Thatovel Therapies Aimed at Virus Elimination Are Beneficial in Certain Cardiomyopathies

In 1995, John J.P. Kastelein, professor of medicine, chair of the Department of Vascular Medicine, and strategic chair of Genetics of Cardiovascular Disease at the Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, was allocated a €30 million grant to find and treat all of the individuals with hereditary disorders of lipoprotein metabolism in the Netherlands, resulting in a family database that contains the DNA and biomaterial of more than 5000 patients.