Hiddo Lambers Heerspink is Professor of Clinical Trials and Personalized Medicine and a clinical trialist at the Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacology at the University Medical Center Groningen. He is also visiting professor at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. He studied pharmacy at the University of Groningen and received his PhD from the University Medical Center Groningen. Professor Lambers Heerspink’s research interests focus on optimizing current treatment strategies and finding new therapeutic approaches to halt the progression of kidney and cardiovascular diseases in patients with diabetes with a specific focus on personalized medicine.

He has successfully led and currently leads numerous clinical trials with new interventions to reduce diabetes related kidney and cardiovascular complications including the DAPA-CKD, FIND-CKD, ALIGN, ZENITH and FRONTIER trials. His main expertise includes clinical trial design, personalized medicine and methodological aspects and statistical analyses of clinical trials. Professor L. Heerspink has authored and co-authored over 400 peer-reviewed publications and is editorial board member of Diabetes Obesity and Metabolism and the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. Prof L. Heerspink serves as reviewer for and member of various committees of international professional organizations including the American Diabetes Association, and the American Society of Nephrology.

Prof Heerspink is a consultant and has received honoraria from AstraZeneca, Bayer, Boehringer Ingelheim, CSL Behring, Chinook, Dimerix, Eli-Lilly, Janssen, Gilead, Merck, Novartis, Novo Nordisk and Travere Pharmaceuticals.