Christine Van Broeckhoven

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Christine Van Broeckhoven (1953-) is a Flemish molecular biologist and professor at the University of Antwerp (Antwerp, Belgium). She is also leading the Department of Molecular Genetics of the Flemish Interuniversity Institute of 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.

For her achievements as a scientist, she received the Belgian Quinquennial Prize of the Belgian National Science Foundation and in 1993 she and three other scientists were awarded the American Potamkin Prize for their work on the amyloid precursor protein (APP) which can cause severe, early Alzheimer’s disease^[3]. In 2006, she was awarded the L'Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science of l'Oréal and UNESCO, "For the genetic investigation of Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative diseases".

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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. ^ Van Broeckhoven C, Haan J, Bakker E, Hardy JA, Van Hul W, Wehnert A, Vegter-Van der Vlis M, Roos RA., Amyloid beta protein precursor gene and hereditary cerebral hemorrhage with amyloidosis (Dutch), Science. 1990 Jun 1;248(4959):1120-2

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• Christine Van Broeckhoven
• Molecular Genetics Department (University of Antwerp)