Ben J. A. Janssen is an Associate Professor of Pharmacology and staff member at the Department of Pharmacology of the Maastricht University. He received his M.Sc. degree in biology from the University of Nijmegen in 1983. In 1988, he received his Ph.D. degree from Maastricht University for his thesis “Sensory renal nerves and hypertension.” Since then, he has been head of the experimental animal laboratory of the Department of Pharmacology and has been involved in the technical development of invasive and noninvasive techniques to phenotype animal models used in cardiovascular research, including hypertension, atherosclerosis, and heart failure. In 1995, he was a visiting senior scientist at the Neuropharmacology laboratory of Prof. J. Head at the Baker Medical Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia, where he specialized in assessing autonomic nervous activity measurement from cardiovascular signals. He is co-author of more than 120 peer-reviewed papers and was involved in setting up experimental studies in a number of projects funded within the national Dutch TIPHARMA and CTMM initiatives. His current research interest on mechanism of early renal inflammation in hypertension. Additionally, he is teaching coordinator of the pharmacotherapy program at the Maastricht University. Mat Daemen's photograph and biography were unavailable at time of publication.