Bouke Pier Hazenberg is a retired Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Groningen/University Medical Center Groningen and past Chair of the Amyloidosis Centre of Expertise. He obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Groningen in 2007. In 2012, he chaired the International Symposium on Amyloidosis in Groningen and was President of the Board of Directors of the International Society of Amyloidosis from 2014 to 2016. His Scientific interests include the diagnosis, clinometry, and treatment of the main types of systemic amyloidosis, the monitoring of disease activity of systemic amyloidosis, the application and development of scintigraphy with serum amyloid P component, fat tissue analysis and amyloid deposition, the role of precursor proteins in amyloidogenesis, and the development of a fully humanized cell culture system of amyloidogenesis.