Jan A.M. Smeitink#
| Membership Number: | 3507 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2013 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.ncmd.nl |
Present and Previous Positions
- CEO/CSO Khondrion BV (2010-present)
- Director of the Centre for Systems Biology and Bioenergetics (2009-
- present)
- Director of the Institute for Genetic and Metabolic Disease (2008-present)
- Full Professor of Mitochondrial Medicine (2006-present)
- Head Department of Metabolic and Endocrine Disorders, RUN-MC (1996)
- Director of the Nijmegen Centre for Mitochondrial Disorders (1996)
- PhD, Mitochondrial Creatine Kinase, some clinical, biochemical and morphological studies (1992)
Fields of Scholarship
- Mitochondrial medicine
- Systems biology
- Pediatrics
- Inborn errors of metabolism
Honours and Awards
- 2012 ZonMW PM Rare Grant
- 2012 Marie Curie ITN grant MEET
- 2011 MitoTreat Eurostars project
- 2011 Honorary member of the Pediatric Neurology Association, Hong Kong
- 2010 NWO and ZonMW funding for establishing the Centre for System Biology and Bioenergetics
- 2009 3M Foundation Award, 2009
- 2006 Prinses Beatrix Foundation Jubilee Research Award (2006) at the 50th anniversary of the Foundation
- 2006 Foreign Adjunct Professor Karolinska Instite
- 1992 Young Investigator Award, SSIMD, USA, 1992
