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Anne M.J. (‘Hanneke’) Verstegen
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and BIDMC
Research Unit(s)
Department of Medicine
Division of Nephrology
Inter-office Mail Address
BIDMC, Center for Life Science Rm-706
Email aversteg(at)bidmc.harvard.edu
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Education and Training
Undergraduate
HU University of Applied Sciences, Utrecht (NL)
BSc. Zoology and Developmental Biology - 6/ 2003
* Department of Life Sciences at the Institute of Life Sciences and Chemistry
Graduate
Utrecht University (NL)
MSc. Experimental and Clinical Neuroscience - 10/ 2006
* Department of Anatomy and Pharmacology at Rudolf Magnus Institute of Neuroscience
* Department of Psychopharmacology at Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences
Italian Institute of Technology/ University of Genoa (IT)
Ph.D. Neuroscience - 4/ 2011
* Department of Neuroscience and Brain Technology
Post-Graduate
Postdoctoral Fellow (2011 - 2012)
Laboratory of Professor Fabio Benfenati
* Department of Neuroscience and Brain Technology
Italian Institute of Technology/ University of Genoa (IT)
Postdoctoral Fellow (2012 - 2016)
Laboratory of Professor Bradford B. Lowell
* Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/ Harvard Medical School, Boston MA
Appointments and Positions
Instructor in Medicine (2017 - 2021)
* Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology (Zeidel lab)
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/ Harvard Medical School, Boston MA
Assistant Professor of Medicine (present)
* Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology
Harvard Medical School/ Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston MA
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Funding:
06/2020 - 03/2025 NIDDK RO1 DK125708 (Verstegen), Bladder Fulness Signaling and the Neural Control of Continence
2025 - 2030 (anticipated). NIDDK R01 DK142807 (Verstegen), Mapping Mechanosensory Circuits from the Bladder to Barrington's Nucleus
08/2022 - 07/2024. George M. O’Brien U54 Urology Center Opportunity Pool award U54 (Verstegen, Keil-Stietz MPI), Understanding the Role of PCBs on LUTS in a Mouse Model System
2017 - 2019 O’Brien Center for Benign Urology Research, University of Wisconsin Madison (VanderHorst, PI) U54 DK104310, Neural Plasticity in Bladder Outlet Obstruction (role Co-I)
2017 - 2022 NIDDK R01 DK113030 (Zeidel, PI), Mapping Brainstem Control of Bladder Filling and Voiding (role Co-I)
2017 - 2023 NIDDK U01 NS096835 (Zeidel, PI), Development of Therapeutic Antibody for Traumatic Brain Injury (role Co-I)
2018 - 2021 NIDDK P20 DK119789 (Zeidel, PI), Single Cell RNA-Seq of Neuron Populations Controlling Bladder Function (role Co-I)
2023 - 2028 NIDDK R01 DK135541 (Zeidel, PI), Autonomic Control of Kidney Function (role Co-I).