Ihor Huk
Director of Vascular Laboratory
Medical University of Vienna
Vienna, Austria
Biography
As international Member of Ukrainian Academy of Science he participate in scientific meetings of the Academy and hold some lectures. His education he got in many universities worldwide starting from Gdansk, mainly Vienna and partially Chicago. His interested was always with regards to biochemistry and pathophysiology of humans cells. In Vienna he became one of the famous surgeon , as his rector mentioned it recently, by doing tounsed of organ transplantations and vascular procedures. He was always interested in developing and introduction of new procedures and was first who invented ukrainian vascular surgeon and friend Volodos who invented as pioneer worldwide stenting of aortic aneurysms. Since 1984 he performed more than 550 kidney, liver transplantation Vascular Surgery: Clinical, experimental Research (SPACE-Study), (L-arginine study). From his experimental laboratory at Medical University of Vienna many exciting papers were published in top journals e.g. Circulation, Stroke, EJVES, JVS etc.
Research Interest
Vascular surgery,Aortic aneurysms,Biochemistry and pathophysiology