Nicoline Hoogerbrugge - Biography#

Nicoline Hoogerbrugge graduated in Medicine at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands (1983, Cum Laude), where she was trained in internal medicine (1988) and endocrinology (1993) and completed her PhD thesis (1992). From 1994-1999 she was head of the cardiovascular lipid clinic at the Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam. In 1999 she became member of the medical staff of the department of Human Genetics Radboud university medical center (Radboudumc) Nijmegen, The Netherlands and head of the Radboudumc expert center in hereditary cancer. Since 2009 she is full professor in hereditary cancer at the Radboud university and from 2011-2016 she was adjunct professor at Haukeland University Bergen, Norway. In 2012 she started the Radboudumc expert center in cancer prevention. Since 2017 she is head of the European Reference Network on genetic tumor risk syndromes (ERN GENTURIS).

Her main research interest is identification, treatment and prevention of hereditary cancer. She is active in several strong international collaborations, chair or (board) member of several national and international committees. Hoogerbrugge (co)authored more than 250 peer reviewed papers and 10 book chapters.

She detected various new genetic risk factors for hereditary colorectal and pediatric cancer and increased knowledge concerning recognition and prevention of hereditary cancer and its psychosocial impact.

The dream she is working on is prevention of cancer.