Professor A Danser

Jan Danser studied pharmacy at the University of Amsterdam. In 1985 he worked at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, USA, under the guidance of Paul Vanhoutte. After obtaining his pharmacist’s degree, he joined the Dept. of Internal Medicine at the Erasmus MC in Rotterdam as a PhD student. He defended his thesis in 1992 (promotor: Maarten Schalekamp), and then joined the Dept. of Pharmacology at the Erasmus MC. He currently is Professor of Pharmacology and heads the Division of Pharmacology within the Dept. of Internal Medicine at the Erasmus MC. His research focuses on the pathogenesis and therapy of hypertension, with special emphasis on the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system, its local function(s) and the synthesis of its components at tissue sites. He has supervised >70 PhD students. In addition, he teaches pharmacology as well as pharmacotherapy. He has published >580 papers in internationally refereed journals. Het currently is the treasurer of the European Society of Hypertension.