Anne Yael Nossent MD, PhD

Dr. Anne Yaël Nossent is a molecular biologist with a particular interest in the role of non-coding RNAs in vasculature. She obtained her Master's degree in Biopharmaceutical Sciences from Leiden University in the Netherlands in 2002, after which she started her PhD research at the Leiden University Medical Center. She successfully defended her PhD thesis on determinants of plasma levels of von Willebrand Factor and coagulation Factor VIII in February 2008.

She then moved to Denmark for a three-year postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Copenhagen and the University of Southern Demark in Odense in the lab of Prof. Dr. Søren Paludan Sheikh, where she started working on microRNAs. After she moved back to the Netherlands in 2010, she started her own line of research on microRNAs in vascular remodeling, under the mentorship of Prof. Dr. Paul Quax. Her research has been supported by grants from, among others, the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) and the Netherlands Heart Foundation.

In 2017, she moved to Vienna, Austria, for a period of 4 years, to work both in Leiden and in Austria on the role of small nucleolar RNAs and RNA modifications in vascular remodeling, together with Prof. Dr. Christoph Binder and Dr. Johann Wojta. There, she obtained a Lise Meitner grant from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). In September 2021, Yaël returned to the LUMC fulltime.