User:Hugues Abriel

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Hugues Abriel has been trained both as a life-science scientist and medical doctor (MD PhD), in Switzerland. After two years spent doing clinical work with patients, he is involved since ten years in research projects aiming at elucidating the roles of ion channels in human diseases (channelopathies), with a special emphasis on cardiac arrhythmias. He is now an assistant Professor (Swiss National Science Foundation Professor) at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, Department of pharmacology and toxicology and service of cardiology, where he leads a research group.