About us

The Netherlands Heart Institute is a collaboration of the cardiology departments of all eight university medical centres in the Netherlands (see website). The Hartenbank is part of the Netherlands Heart Institute.

Employees of the Netherlands Hartenbank

Michiel Henkens

Head of Department

Marlies van Oostveen

Project Manager

Bo van Ieperen

Project Officer

Anne Wielenga

Communication Specialist

Naomi Mac-Donald

Donor Registration

Evelien van der Schaaf-de Wolf

Data Manager

Erik van Iperen

Project Manager ICT

Rogier Veltrop

Scientific Coordinator

Tess Yntema

Daily Coordinator

Maureen van der Arend

Biobank Employee

The organization

The board

Eelco Soeteman (managing director NLHI)
Prof. dr. Wouter Jukema (cardiologist LUMC)
Prof. dr. Jolanda van der Velden (chair of the Department of Physiology at Amsterdam UMC)

Scientific Advisory Board

The Heart Tissue Bank is supported by a Scientific Advisory Board. It consists of:

Prof. dr. Peter van der Meer, cardiologist UMC Groningen
Prof. dr. Peter van Tintelen, klinisch geneticus UMC Utrecht
Prof. dr. Connie Bezzina, moleculair cardiogeneticus Amsterdam UMC
Prof. dr. Inge Huitinga, director Nederlandse Hersenbank
Prof. dr. Blanche Schroen, experimental cardiology Maastricht UMC
Prof. dr. Monique Jongbloed, cardiologist LUMC
Prof. dr. Robin Nijveldt, cardiologist Radboud UMC
Dr. Olivier Manintveld, cardiologist Erasmus MC

Expertise Centre for Postmortem Diagnostics Amsterdam UMC

For cardiac obductions and diagnostics, we work together with the Expertise Centre for Postmortem Diagnostics Amsterdam UMC.

Financial support

he (future) work of the Hartenbank would not be possible without financial support. The Hartenbank is supported by the Dutch Heart Foundation and the PLN Foundation.

All private financial supporters: anyone can support the Hartenbank financially via this website. On behalf of all researchers, we would like to thank them for their contribution!

Partners

The Hartenbank collaborates with: Hersenbank, Dutch Heart Foundation, PLN Foundation, CastorEDC, Ldot, Hart4Onderzoek and LMNA-cardiac.org. Below is an overview of our partners. On behalf of all researchers, we would like to thank our partners for their contribution!