Biography Pieternella Eline Slagboom

Max Planck Fellow Slagboom

Scientific Career

2010 - present Vice Chair
of Department of Medical Statistics and Bioinformatics
2000 - present Full Professor of Molecular Epidemiology
at the Department of Medical Statistics and Bioinformatics, Leiden University Medical Center. Head of section of Molecular Epidemiology
1995 - 2000 Group leader
at the Department of Vascular and Connective Tissues Research, Gaubius Laboratory, TNO-PG, Leiden
1993 - 1995 Investigator
at the Department of Vascular and Connective Tissues Research, Gaubius Laboratory, TNO-PG, Leiden

Education

1986 -1993            PhD in Biology
at the Medical Faculty of Leiden University, The Netherlands, Thesis:Genomic Instability and Ageing
1978 - 1985 MSc in Biology, Biochemistry
Leiden University, The Netherlands

Scientific activities

2017 Member Evaluation Committee ZonMw
2016 Organizing committee of Kick off meeting  Dutch Society for Research on Ageing,  Leiden, NL
2016 Organizing Committee of BBMRI.Nl metabolomics workshop
2016 Organizing committee of Lorentz workshop: Translational Aging Research: Challenges and Opportunities, Leiden, NL
2015 Chair of the Dutch Society for Research on Ageing (DuSRA)
2015 - present Organizing Committee of Welcome Trust meetings on Ageing and Metabolism  in Cambridge, UK. Chair Prof. L. Partridge
2015 - present Organizing Committee of Welcome Trust meetings on Ageing and Longitudinal studies in Cambridge, UK. Chair Prof. D. Kuh
2013 - 2018 Member MRC Lifelong Health and Ageing Steering Committee (London, UK)
2012 - present Initiator and Board member of LUMC Sequencing Analysis Support Core (SASC)
2011 - 2016 Coordinator of Large scale FP7-Health EU projects IDEAL (Integrated research on Developmental determinants of Aging and Longevity) - Organizing committee of annual meetings and Dissemination Conference
2011 - present Chair of LUMC Medical Research Profile on Ageing
2010 - 2014 Co-director of Netherlands Consortium for Healthy Ageing (NCHA) - Organizing Committee of National and International NCHA conferences. PI of the Leiden Longevity Study cohort
2009 - present Board member of BBMRI-NL (Biobanking and Biomolecular Resources Research Infrastructure). Program leader of the BBMRI Metabolomics consortium
2008 Organizing Committee of 6th European Congress of Biogerontology
Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands
2007 - 2010 Member ZonMW VIDI committee (2 x 2 years)
2007 - 2010 Member of the Scientific Committee (WAC) of the Dutch Heart Foundation
2006 - present Section Editor in Editorial Board of Aging Cell
2003 - 2005 Member of Research Committee ‘Decennium van het Bewegingsapparaat’ (part of the international campaign “The Bone and Joint Decade”)
2000 As Professor of Molecular Epidemiology started a new group in Molecular Epidemiology
1995 Initiated a new genetic epidemiology group on age-related diseases at TNO
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