Miikka Vikkula

Miikka Vikkula serves as Vice President of the International Society for the Study of Vascular Anomalies since June 2024. Vikkula also holds the position of European Coordinator for the Revamp Project at Fondation Leducq and is an investigator at the WEL Research Institute. In addition, Vikkula chairs the VASCA working group within VASCERN, the European Reference Network on Rare Multisystemic Vascular Diseases, and has been a full member of the Académie royale de Médecine de Belgique since June 2016. As a faculty member and Laboratory Director at the de Duve Institute since February 1997, Vikkula has played a pivotal role in various research initiatives, including serving as coordinator for the European ITN network VACure from March 2019 to April 2024. Vikkula's extensive education includes a Doctor of Medicine from the University of Helsinki and multiple advanced degrees in Molecular Genetics from Harvard Medical School and Université catholique de Louvain.