PeterBlankestijn University Medical Center UtrechtNetherlands

Curriculum vitae of Prof Peter J. Blankestijn Peter J. Blankestijn did his medical school and training in internal medicine at the Erasmus University and Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam and worked as a nephrologist at the department of Nephrology and Hypertension of the University Medical Center Utrecht (UMCU), the Netherlands. Main research activities include studies in humans. Subjects are: 1] hypertension, with special interest for hypertension in chronic kidney disease patients, for the sympathetic nervous system and renal denervation. 2] treatment and prevention of complications of chronic kidney disease patients, 3] hemodialysis techniques, and 4] treatment and prevention of complications of hemodialysis treatment. He was and is principal investigator of several multicenter studies, including SMASH, MASTERPLAN, CONTRAST, SYMPATHY and CONVINCE. He received multiple grants from (inter)national organizations as well as of pharmaceutical, dialysis and medical devices industries. He acquired a large grant in the HORIZON 2020 program of the European Commission as chair of the CONVINCE consortium. He is (co)author of approximately 400 papers in peer reviewed scientific medical journals (Google Scholar H-index 81, > 22.000 citations).