Cisca Wijmenga#
| Membership Number: | 3675 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2013 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.rug.nl/research/genetics/staff/cisca-wijmenga |
Present and Previous Positions
- Sept 2019 - 2023 Rector magnificus of the University of Groningen
- Since Aug 2017 Lodewijk Sandkuijl Endowed Chair, University of Groningen
- Jan 2016 - July 2019 Adjunct Professorship in Medicine at the University of Oslo, Norway (0.1 fte) and Principal investigator at K.G. Jebsen Coeliac Disease Research Centre, University of Oslo
- Since Jan 2007 Full professor of Human Genetics, Department of Genetics, University Medical Centre Groningen, the Netherlands
- 2007, 01 - 2019 Professor of Human Genetics, Department Head, Dept. Genetics, UMCG, Groningen, the Netherlands
- 2003, 05 - 2007, 01 Prof. Human Genetics, section head Dept. Biomed. Genetics, University Medical Center Utrecht, the Netherlands
- 2001, 09 - 2002, 03 Fulbright scholar, National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH, Bethesda, USA
- 1999, 03 - 2003, 05 Associate professor, Department of Biomedical Genetics, University Medical Center, Utrecht, the Netherlands
- 1995, 10 - 1999, 03 Assistant professor, Department of Biomedical Genetics, University, Medical Center, Utrecht, the Netherlands
- 1994, 01 - 1995, 10 Postdoctoral fellow under Dr. FS Collins, National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH, Bethesda, USA
- 1993, 03 - 1994, 01 Postdoctoral fellow Dept. Human Genetics, Leiden University Medical Center, the Netherlands
- 1989, 03 - 1993, 03 Postgraduate research towards PhD, Leiden University Medical Center, the Netherlands
Fields of Scholarship
- Autoimmune diseases
- Genome of the Netherlands
- Microbiome
- Biobanking
- Celiac disease
- Bioinformatics
- Integrative genomics
- Biomarkers
- Non-coding RNA
- Human genetics
- Genome-wide association study
Honours and Awards
- Major awards:
- 2022 Galjaard lifetime achievement award
- 2019 European Society of Human Genetics (ESHG) award
- 2018 United European Gastroenterology Research Prize
- 2015 Spinoza Prize
- 2012 Election to Dutch Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)
- 2012 Recipient ERC advanced award (CD-LINK)
- 2001 Fulbright Scholarship (Netherlands America Commission for Educational Exchange)
- Prizes and honors:
- 2018 Knighted into the Order of the Dutch Lion
- 2014 - 2021 Web of Science highly cited researcher (top 1%)
- 1993 J.C. Kok Award - annual award by the Medical School, Leiden University, for the best young researcher in the medical sciences (< 40 years)
- 1993 “Neuromuscular disorders” Award - annual award by the Research Foundation for Neuromuscular Disorders for the best scientific manuscript in this field
- 1993 PhD degree with honors (cum laude)
- Other:
- 2012 Visiting Scientist award from the Sigrid Jusélius Foundation (Finland)
- 2009 Distinguished Visiting Scientist Stipend (Netherlands Genomics Initiative)
- 2005 VICI award (Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research)
- 2001 Ter Meulen Fonds (Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences) Fellowship
- 1994 Visiting Fellowship Award (Fogarty) National Institute of Health, USA
