Associate Editor of the Journal of Cell Biology, Traffic, and Molecular Biology of the Cell.

Dr Jamie Vandenberg

Getting to the heart of ectopic beats

Jamie Vandenberg completed his MBBS at the University of Sydney in 1988 and his PhD at the University of Cambridge in 1994. After post-doctoral work in the United Kingdom he moved to the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute in 2002. In 2007 he established the Mark Cowley Lidwill Research Program in Cardiac Electrophysiology and was appointed co-Deputy Director in 2010. He is a conjoint Professor at the University of New South Wales and an NHMRC Senior Research Fellow. His research is focussed on the electrical signals that control the rhythm of the heartbeat and understanding the molecular basis of disorders of heart rhythm and sudden cardiachindsight, it was a colossally
stupid thing to do, but we had a lot of company,” Groninger
said of the investment. “The most difficult part of investing
in something new is if you don’t know what you don’t know, you
don’t completely know what questions to ask, and that was a big
problem.”

Groninger grew up in Aurora, Illinois, west of Chicago,
where his father owned a chain of coin laundries. He graduated
from Yale University in 1974 with a history degree, and was
first exposed to commodities markets at Continental Grain Co.
before joining Elmhurst National Bank, which later became Old
Kent Bank, which was in turn purchased by Fifth Third Bancorp.

Not JPMorgan

In 1987, about a month after the October market crash, he
joined First Midwest, and stayed there until retiring on Feb. 1.

First Midwest, whose Itasca, Illinois-based parent