科妮莉亚·M·范杜因

Professor Cornelia Van Duijn is a statistical geneticist and epidemiologist working at the forefront of genomics research of Alzheimer disease and dementia. Through-out her career, professor van Duijn has bridged start-of-the art –omics research, integrating (epi)genetic, transcriptomic, proteomic, metabolomic and microbiome data. Her current research focuses on the cross talk between age, apolipoprotein E and other genes involved and the risk of dementia and brain health. Professor van Duijn leads the AI and big data team Oxford British Heart Foundation Center of Excellence (BHF-CRE), in which she researches the interplay between vascular pathology and neurodegeneration over the life course. She further co-leads with professor Masud Husain the Dementia Research Oxford (DRO) consortium and with Professor Eva Morris she co-leads the Health Data Research (UK HDRUK) Oxford regional network. Cornelia is a member of Royal Academy of Science of the Netherlands, fellow of the Medical Science (UK) and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). She further is part of the scientific advisory board of the German Centre for Neurodegenerative diseases (DZNE), Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM’ chair), The LOOP Zurich translational research center, and Genomique France. Cornelia is also member of the supervisory board of The Lifelines Cohort (Lifelines) of the University Medical Centre Groningen and Groningen University.