Cornelia Van Duijn PhD

Cornelia van Duijn is Professor of Genetic Epidemiology at the Erasmus University Medical School Rotterdam in the Netherlands. Since 1992, she is head of the genetic-epidemiology section of the Department of Epidemiology . In 1997, Dr van Duijn received a Pioneer grant award of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific research (NWO) for her work on the genetic-epidemiology of Alzheimer's disease. She is the program director of the NIHES international teaching programme in Genetic-Epidemiology (MSc, DSc, PhD). This is a collaborative programme with the Harvard University (Prof.dr D. Pauls) and Cambridge University (Prof.dr D Clayton). Prof. Van Duijn is part of the Center for Medical Systems Biology (CMSB) of the Genetics Focus Group in the Netherlands.