Christine Van Broeckhoven

Christine Van Broeckhoven
Born (1953-04-09) 9 April 1953 (age 71)
Nationality Belgium
Occupation(s)politician, biologist, professor
AwardsPotamkin Prize (1993)

Christine Van Broeckhoven (born 9 April 1953) is a Belgian molecular biologist and professor in Molecular genetics at the University of Antwerp (Antwerp, Belgium). She is also leading the VIB Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Antwerp of the Flanders Institute for Biotechnology (VIB). Christine Van Broeckhoven does research on Alzheimer dementia,[1][2] bipolar mental disorders and other neurological diseases. Since 1983 she has had her own laboratory for molecular genetics at the University of Antwerp, and since 2005 is focussing her research on neurodegenerative brain diseases. She is an associate editor of the scientific journal Genes, Brain and Behavior.[3]

  1. ^ Van Broeckhoven C, Backhovens H, Cruts M, De Winter G, Bruyland M, Cras P, Martin JJ., Mapping of a gene predisposing to early-onset Alzheimer's disease to chromosome 14q24.3, Nat Genet. 1992 Dec;2(4):335–9.
  2. ^ Van Broeckhoven C., Presenilins and Alzheimer disease, Nat Genet. 1995 Nov;11(3):230–2.
  3. ^ Genes, Brain and Behavior – Editorial contacts