Professor max nieuwdorp
AmsterdamUMC, Amsterdam
Professor Nieuwdorp (1977) studied Medicine at Utrecht University and received his Ph.D. on diabetes at the Academic Medical Center of the University of Amsterdam (AMC-UvA; under supervision of Professor John Kastelein). After a residency in Internal Medicine and fellowship in Endocrinology & Vascular Medicine at the AMC-UvA he performed a postdoctoral fellowship on glycobiology at University of California, San Diego in the department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine under Professor Jeff Esko. Professor Nieuwdorp is currently chair of Diabetes and heads of Amsterdam UMC Vascular Medicine department (110 Fte). He has supervised over 35 awarded PhD thesis as promotor and currently oversees the work of 20 Ph.D. students, 5 postdoctoral fellows and 4 technicians. His group focuses on translational research aimed at resolving diabetes and its complications by modification of the gut microbiota. Prof Nieuwdorp has published > 360 peer reviewed articles including papers in Nature Medicine, Science, Cell, NEJM, Cell Metabolism, Gut and Gastroenterology (H-factor 65). He has been awarded several prestigious personal grants (NWO VENI, VIDI and VICI grants as well as an ERC Advanced Grant 2024) and served as PI in multiple consortium grants (Novonordisk foundation, LeDucq foundation and Horizon 2020 and FP7 European grants). He also published a popular science bestseller book “ We are our hormones” in 2022 at Simon and Schuster publishers, which is currently translated in > 11 languages.
