CV
Scientific Career
2020 - today | Research Group Leader
Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne, Germany
2016 - 2020 | Postdoctoral researcher
Biological Mechanisms of Ageing (Linda Partridge), Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne, Germany
2013 - 2016 | Postdoctoral researcher
Molecular Epidemiology, Department of Biomedical Data Sciences (Eline Slagboom), Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
Education
2008 - 2014 | Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Molecular Epidemiology cum laude
Title thesis: “Genetic and biomarker studies of human longevity”
Leiden University, The Netherlands
2006 - 2008 | Master of Science (MSc) in Biomedical Sciences
Leiden University, The Netherland
2003 - 2006 | Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Biomedical Sciences
Leiden University, The Netherlands
Third-party funding
2022 - 2027 | ERC Starting Grant
2022 - 2026 | Longevity Impetus Grant
Selected publications
From mutation to mechanism: deciphering the molecular function of genetic variants linked to human ageing
Baghdadi, M., Hinterding, H. M., Partridge, L., Deelen, J.
(2022) Briefings in Functional Genomics, 1, 25, 13-23
Multivariate genomic scan implicates novel loci and haem metabolism in human ageing
Timmers, P.R.H.J., Wilson, J. F., Joshi, P. K., Deelen, J.
(2020) Nat Commun, 11, 1, 3570
A metabolic profile of all-cause mortality risk identified in an observational study of 44,168 individuals
Deelen, J., Kettunen, J., Fischer, K., van der Spek, A.,
Trompet, S., Kastenmuller, G., Boyd, A., Zierer, J.van den Akker, E. B.,
Ala-Korpela, M., Amin, N., Demirkan, A., Ghanbari, M., van Heemst, D.,
Ikram, M. A.van Klinken, J. B., Mooijaart, S. P., Peters, A., Salomaa,
V., Sattar, N., Spector, T. D., Tiemeier, H., Verhoeven, A.,
Waldenberger, M., Wurtz, P., Davey Smith, G., Metspalu, A., Perola, M.,
Menni, C., Geleijnse, J. M., Drenos, F., Beekman, M., Jukema, J. W., van
Duijn, C. M., Slagboom, P. E.
(2019) Nat Commun, 10, 1, 3346
A meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies identifies multiple longevity genes
Deelen, J., Evans, D. S., Arking, D. E., Tesi, N., Nygaard, M.,
Liu, X., Wojczynski, M. K., Biggs, M. L.van der Spek, A., Atzmon, G.,
Ware, E. B., Sarnowski, C., Smith, A. V., Seppala, I., Cordell, H. J.,
Dose, J.Amin, N., Arnold, A. M., Ayers, K. L., Barzilai, N., Becker, E.
J., Beekman, M., Blanche, H., Christensen, K., Christiansen, L.,
Collerton, J. C., Cubaynes, S., Cummings, S. R., Davies, K., Debrabant,
B., Deleuze, J. F., Duncan, R., Faul, J. D., Franceschi, C., Galan, P.,
Gudnason, V., Harris, T. B., Huisman, M., Hurme, M. A., Jagger, C.,
Jansen, I., Jylha, M., Kahonen, M., Karasik, D., Kardia, S. L. R.,
Kingston, A., Kirkwood, T. B. L., Launer, L. J., Lehtimaki, T., Lieb,
W., Lyytikainen, L. P., Martin-Ruiz, C., Min, J., Nebel, A., Newman, A.
B., Nie, C., Nohr, E. A., Orwoll, E. S., Perls, T. T., Province, M. A.,
Psaty, B., M., Raitakari, O. T., Reinders, M. J. T., Robine, J. M.,
Rotter, J. I., Sebastiani, P., Smith, J., Sorensen, T. I. A., Taylor, K.
D., Uitterlinden, A. G., van der Flier, W., van der Lee, S. J., van
Duijn, C. M., van Heemst, D., Vaupel, J. W., Weir, D.Ye, K., Zeng, Y.,
Zheng, W., Holstege, H., Kiel, D. P., Lunetta, K. L., Slagboom, P. E.,
Murabito, J. M.
(2019) Nat Commun, 10, 1, 3669
Facing up to the global challenges of ageing
Partridge, L., Deelen, J., Slagboom, P. E.
(2018) Nature, 561, 7721, 45-56
Full publications list; see https://www.age.mpg.de/deelen/publications