Teemu Niiranen, MD, PhD, is a physician-scientist and a clinical hypertension specialist. His research on hypertension in large population cohorts has led to >300 publications that are cited by the European, American, British, and Japanese clinical hypertension guidelines. After finishing his PhD and clinical training in internal medicine, Dr. Niiranen received in-depth training in cardiovascular disease epidemiology at the Framingham Heart Study. After his post-doctoral period, he became the professor of internal medicine in 2020 at the University of Turku, Finland. Dr. Niiranen has received young investigator awards from the American and Finnish Societies of Hypertension, and the American Heart Association. He is the chair of the Finnish hypertension guidelines and a co-author of the European Society of Hypertension hypertension guidelines.