Profile of Prof. dr. Taruna Ikrar, M.D., M. Biomed, Ph.D., Indonesian Physician Biomedical Scientist

TRIBUN-VIDEO.COM - Prof. dr. Taruna Ikrar, M.D., M. Biomed, Ph.D., is an internationally recognized physician, biomedical scientist, and biomedical educator with more than 20 years of experience in:

Practicing medicine as a licensed physician at both private and public government hospitals
Conducting biomedical research in university & hospital settings
Providing formal academic curriculum development & instruction for undergraduate, doctoral, and post-doctoral biomedical education programs in university and hospital settings.

Exercising supervisory management and professional development of clinical/research staff in university and hospital settings.

Over the past decade, Prof. Ikrar's ground-breaking biomedical discoveries in biomedical sciences, pharmacology, cardiovascular sciences, and neurosciences have been published in numerous world-class peer-reviewed research journals including Nature, Neuron, Cells, Circulation, Molecular Therapy, American Journal of Cardiology, Journal of Physiology, Current Biology Journal, and Frontiers in Neural Circuits.

They have earned funding from the US National Institutes of Health (NIH). His current research activity is focused on advancing the understanding and treatment of degenerative and infectious diseases, including the Dendritic cell vaccine immunotherapy for COVID-19.

Prof. Ikrar has obtained lawful permanent residence in the United States by qualifying as a physician scientist of extraordinary ability (EB-1 Visa, aka “genius visa”), and is thus recognized by the US Government as an individual with “a level of expertise indicating that the individual is one of that small percentage who have risen to the very top of the field of endeavor".

Currently, Prof. Ikrar has been inaugurated by the President of Indonesia as the Chairman of the Medical Council (Konsil Kedokteran Indonesia).

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Academic Credential

Prof. Ikrar is an Indonesian-born pharmacologist, cardiovascular, and neuroscientist. He has an extensive educational background leading to his current scientific career.

These include earning a B.Sc. in Medicine from the Hasanuddin University in Makassar, Indonesia in 1994 and finishing his residency and receiving an M.D. from the School of Medicine in Hasanuddin University, Makassar, Indonesia in 1997.

Prof. Ikrar continued to pursue an graduate master degree in Pharmacology Medicine (M.Biomed) from the University of Indonesia, Jakarta in 2003.

Following this, he received his Doctorate, Ph.D., for his research work in “Cardiovascular and Vital Control” from Niigata University, Japan in 2008.

His thesis concerned his invention of a novel functional impact of altered charge and/or size of amino acid residue at the selectivity filter of KCNQ1 potassium channel: Insight into gene therapy for Severe Long QT Phenotype.

Prof. Ikrar continued his postdoctoral research in the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of California, Irvine, USA (2008-2013).

Prof. Ikrar received a promotion as an academic specialist staff of neurosciences (2013-2016). In 2016, He also accepted the offer from the Rector of the University of Hasanuddin, as an adjunct professor at the School of Medicine, Department of Neurology.

And in 2017, Prof. Ikrar moved to Pacific Health Sciences University (PHSU) at California, working as a professor of biomedical sciences. In December 2017, Prof Ikrar recruited the Presidential Hospital and Army Central Hospital (Cellcure Center) as a Senior Advisor for the Head of the Presidential Hospital. Finally, Prof. Ikrar, continued his professorship in Malahayati University, School of Medicine, Department of Pharmacology.

Also, since August 19, 2020, Prof. Ikrar was inaugurated as the Chairman of Medical Council, of the Indonesian Medical Council.

Prof. Ikrar has experimented for more than 20 years. Utilizing his unique background, he currently works on research that combines three large and very important biomedical research areas: pharmacology, cardiology, and neurosciences.

Prof. Ikrar’s work constituted the first demonstration of the mutation of cardiac dysfunctional, belonging to genetic, Arrhythmias’ cardiac diseases.

So, for his achievements, he received the Ministry of Education Sciences and Technology Award for the outstanding Ph.D. thesis in Japan.

As a physician, Prof. Dr. Ikrar continued his talent as a visiting Doctor in Bologna University, Italy, to study about cardiac intervention to cure arrhythmia by Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillations (Pacemaker).

An implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) is a small battery-powered electrical impulse generator which is implanted in patients who are at risk of sudden cardiac death due to ventricular fibrillation and ventricular tachycardia.

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