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Prof. Annemieke Aartsma-Rus

Dr. Annemieke Aartsma-Rus is associate professor at the Leiden University Medical Centre and Newcastle University. She is currently Chair of the executive committee of the TREAT-NMD alliance and is a member of the Project Ethics Council and TACT Committee. She played an important role in the development of the antisense mediated exon skipping therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy during her PhD research (2000-2004) at the Leiden University Medical Center, Department of Human Genetics (the Netherlands). In 2007, she became leader of the “DMD exon skip group” - first, as assistant professor and currently as associate professor at the Department of Human Genetics. In 2014, she was chosen as the second most influential scientist in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy in the past 10 years (2005-2014) by Expertscape. In 2013, she was elected a member of the junior section of the Dutch Royal Academy of Sciences, which consists of what are considered the top 50 scientists in the Netherlands under 45. 

Published on 21 August 2017

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