Patrick Schrauwen PhD

Patrick Schrauwen, PhD (1971) is Professor of Metabolic aspects of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus at the NUTRIM school for Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism. In his multidisciplinary team, Dr. Schrauwen combines cellular and molecular biology techniques, state-of-the-art MRI/MRS technology (which are developed within the team) with human clinical intervention trails.
Dr. Schrauwen has made key contributions to the study of the relation between mitochondrial function and ectopic fat storage in muscle and type 2 diabetes/insulin resistance. Schrauwen was one of the first to show that mitochondrial function, as measured by muscle oxidative capacity in vivousing NMR imaging and spectroscopy,is compromised not only in patients with overt type 2 diabetes but also in pre-diabetes.