Vice Rector for Research
Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Lithuania
Vaiva Lesauskaitė is Professor in Pathology, Head of Laboratory of Molecular Cardiology at the Institute of Cardiology, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences (LUHS), and Vice-rector for Research at LUHS.
She graduated LUHS cum Laude with a M.D. (1983) and held Doctoral Degree Thesis on Atherosclerosis in Youth (1989) and Habilitation in Cardiovascular Pathology (1997) at LUHS. She was granted Italian Government Fellowship (1994), training fellowship of the European Society of Cardiology (1998), NATO Collaborative Research Grant (1999-2000), Grant from Italian National Council for Research and NATO (2003) to do research in the field of cardiovascular pathology at the Institute of Pathological Anatomy, University of Siena, Italy. She was grant holder (2005-2007) from European Union structural Funds to develop research in basic cardiology at the Institute of Cardiology, LUHS. She also was a holder of six national grants from Lithuanian State Research Foundation and Research Council of Lithuania. She worked as a National expert at the Health Research Directorate, EU Commission (2002).
She was awarded Lithuanian Science Prize (2018). Her professional interests are morphogenesis of cardiovascular pathology, genetic epidemiology of cardiovascular diseases, pharmacogenetics.