AREAS OF SPECIALTY:

• Genetics/gene discovery of human longevity

• Human lifestyle interventions

• Biomarkers of immune-metabolic health

P. Eline Slagboom, PhD

Professor P. Eline Slagboom, biologist by training, obtained her PhD at the Leiden University (NL) on genome instability and ageing. Between ‘93 and 2000 she was group leader at the TNO Institute for applied sciences (Gaubius Institute) and was appointed in 2000 as professor of Molecular Epidemiology at the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC).  Currently at LUMC she is heading the Department of Biomedical Data Sciences. She is chair of the DUSRA – Dutch Society for Research on Ageing, professor at the Technical University Delft, member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) and Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing in Cologne. 

The studies of her group focus on biomarkers (especially metabolomics and proteomics) and pathways of metabolic health, ageing and longevity. Particular interest of her group is the genetics of longevity  and development of molecular biomarkers for biological age, age-related disease/frailty and longevity. Her research into healthy ageing is based on the Leiden Longevity Study study cohort (PI Dr. Marian Beekman) and the BBMRI Metabolomics consortium. Further she is studying stimulation of healthy ageing by lifestyle intervention studies of older adults (Growing Old Together study, GOTO) monitored by multi-omics, multi-tissue and health based read outs. Studies in which she integrates stratification of those at risk and effective lifestyle interventions are performed especially in the VOILA (Vitality Oriented Innovations for the Lifecourse of the Ageing Society) public.