Prof. Dr. Marianne C. Verhaar

Prof. Dr. Marianne C. Verhaar is a Nephrologist and Professor of Experimental Nephrology at the University Medical Center Utrecht, the Netherlands. She is chair of the Department of Nephrology and Hypertension and heads a research group in Experimental Nephrology. In 1992 she started her Ph.D. project at the Department of Nephrology and Hypertension in Utrecht. She received her Ph.D. degree in 1999 and from 2000 to 2008 she worked as a staff member of Vascular Medicine and since 2003, also as head of the research laboratory 'Regenerative Vascular Medicine / Renal and Vascular Biology' in UMC Utrecht. In 2015 she has been appointed chair of the UMC Utrecht Research Program Regenerative Medicine & Stem Cells. Her research focuses on renal and vascular regeneration and involves translational studies from basic cell studies to clinical trials. Marianne Verhaar received several prestigious grants from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, the Dutch Heart Foundation, and the Dutch Kidney Foundation.