Cornelia van Duijn

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.

The focus of the research of Cornelia van Duijn is on Alzheimer's disease and related disorders including Parkinson's disease, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, frontal lobe dementia and Down syndrome. Further, she studies the genetic-epidemiology of osteoarthritis, diabetes, hypertension, and stroke. With regard to population-based research, Cornelia van Duijn's prime interest is in gene-gene and gene-environment interaction.

She received a MSc degree from the Agricultural University Wageningen (1987) and a PhD degree from the Erasmus University (1992).