Pieter Reitsma#
| Membership Number: | 6577 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLINICAL & VETERINARY SCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2023 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
| Homepage(s): | http://varmx.com |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-2207-1830 |
Present and Previous Positions
- April 2016 - present Chief Scientific Officer, VarmX BV, Leiden
- April 2016 - present Emeritus professor, Department of Thrombosis and Hemostasis, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden
- January 2010 - April 2016 Professor and head, Department of Thrombosis and Hemostasis, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden
- June 2009 - December 2009 Professor and head ad interim, Central Laboratory for Clinical Chemistry, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden
- January 2007 - April 2016 Professor and head, Einthoven Laboratory for Experimental Vascular Medicine, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden
- October 2002-December 2006 Professor and head, Center for Experimental and Molecular Medicine, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam
- December 1995 - September 2002 Staff member (Universitair hoofddocent), Laboratory for Experimental Internal Medicine, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam
- September 1985 - November 1995 Staff member (Universitair docent), Department of Hematology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden
- September 1983 - June 1985 Postdoctoral Fellow, Washington University, St. Louis, U.S.A.
- September 1982 - September 1983 Recipient of a 12 month travel stipend (from ZWO) to work at Washington University, St. Louis, U.S.A.
- January 1980 - September 1982 Research Associate, Netherlands Foundation for the advancement of Pure Research (ZWO), stationed at the Dept. of Endocrinology, University of Leiden
Fields of Scholarship
- Thrombotic and bleeding disorders
- Genetics
- Bone and calcium metabolism
- Biochemistry of blood coagulation factors
- Blood coagulation
Honours and Awards
- June 1982 Huygens award, NWO
- April 1991 C.J. Kok Prize for Biomedical Research awarded Leiden University
- June 2003 IFCC Award for significant contributions to molecular diagnostics
- July 2009 BACH distinguished career award, International Society for Thrombosis and Haemostasis
- November 2014 Robert Reneman lectureship, Maastricht University
- May 2017 Van Crefeld lectureship, NVTH
