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Vasile FORIS
Univ. FA Dr.-medic, MSc PhD

Division of Pneumonology, Medical University of Graz, and Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Lung Vascular Research, Auenbruggerplatz 15, 8036 Graz
Phone: +43-316-385 81761,  e-mail

WWW: Forschungsportal Med Uni Graz
ORCID: 0000-0002-8863-0298

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Vasile Foris is a respiratory care physician and scientist with a strong research focus on multi-omics determinants of pulmonary vascular diseases. The main scientific achievements include the characterization of circulating progenitor cells in pulmonary hypertension (PH), the development of a multipanel diagnostic biomarker model of apelin isoforms and the unraveling of the genetic underpinnings of COPD associated PH.

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Co-PI for project: Utilizing circulating free DNA (cfDNA) to differentiate idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) from other interstitial lung diseases (ILDs)
Principal Investigator: Ellen Heitzer