John Kastelein

John J.P. Kastelein (1954) is Professor of Medicine at the Department of Vascular Medicine at the Academic Medical Center (AMC) of the University of Amsterdam, where he holds the Strategic Chair of Genetics of Cardiovascular Disease. Professor Kastelein has published over 820 research papers in peer reviewed journals, including Nature Genetics, Lancet, New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA and Circulation and has a Hirsch index of 99 in July 2016. His overall citatitions reached 45655 in July 2016 and were 5314 over the year 2015. He is listed among the 3000 Highly Cited Researchers 2015; Dr. Kastelein is on the 10th position for the Netherlands and on the 2nd position for the Unviversity of Amsterdam.