Leading cardiologist to helm wearable sensor research in Ireland

William Wijns, co-director of EuroPCR and chairman of PCR, has joined NUI Galway as a professor of medical devices. He will head the $5 million research project to develop wearable sensors for patients at high risk of heart attacks.

Eight of the world’s top 10 med-tech companies are based in Ireland.

Wijns’ programme of work will focus on interventional cardiology, more specifically on reducing the number of heart attacks in patients.

Wijns’ research focuses on heart attacks and sudden death caused by unexpected blockage of arteries supplying the heart with blood and oxygen. This occurs in people exposed to risk factors such as family history, hypertension, smoking, diabetes or high cholesterol, who exhibit a vulnerable narrowing in the walls of their arteries, without being aware of it.

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