Prof. dr. Alexander Vlaar

Alexander Vlaar. PhD, MD, MBA is full professor Intensive Care Medicine and principal investigator in intensive care medicine. He works as an intensivist in the Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, and has extensive experience in the design and execution of large national and international multicenter trials next to basic science. His research has been awarded with many scientific awards, such as the Heineken Young Scientist Award for Medicine 2014 from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). Studies of his research group are published in international peer reviewed journals such as Science, Nature, NEJM, Lancet, JAMA, Blood, Intensive Care Medicine, Critical Care Medicine and Anesthesiology.

His research lines fit under the umbrella of Translational Intensive Care Medicine and contain several topics.