Silvere Maria van der Maarel#
| Membership Number: | 6016 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/silvere-van-der-maarel#tab-1 |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-8103-711X |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2018 - present Board member Division 4, Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), Leiden, The Netherlands
- 2014 - present Ad interim chair of the department of Toxicogenetics, subsequently merged with the department of Human Genetics, Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), Leiden, The Netherlands
- 2012 - present Chair of the department of Human Genetics, Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), Leiden, The Netherlands.
- 2007 - present Co-director of the Fields Center for FSHD and Neuromuscular Research
- 2006 - 2012 Staff member Professor at the Center for Human and Clinical Genetics, Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), Leiden, The Netherlands
- 2002 - 2006 Staff member and associate professor at the Center for Human and Clinical Genetics, Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), Leiden, The Netherlands
- 2000 - 2002 Staff member and assistant professor at the Center for Human and Clinical Genetics, Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), Leiden, The Netherlands
- 1997 - 2000 Postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Human and Clinical Genetics, LUMC, Leiden, The Netherlands
- 1996 - 1997 Postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biology, Berlin, Germany
Fields of Scholarship
- Aquired myopathies
- Macrosatellite repeats in the human genome
- Genetics and epigenetics of inherited diseases
- Adult muscular dystrophies
Honours and Awards
- 2016 FSHD Society Life Time Achievement Prize
- 2014 Prinses Beatrix Spierfonds Research Prize
- 2005 NWO-VIDI Award
- 2005 Young Myologist 2005 Award (World Muscle Society)
- 2000 Gisela Their Fonds Research Fellowship (LUMC Award)
- 1998 FSHD Society, Inc. Marjorie Bronffman Research Fellowship
