Anke-Hilse Maitland-Van der Zee

Anke-Hilse Maitland-Van der Zee was trained as a pharmacist, clinical pharmacologist and epidemiologist. In 2016 she was appointed full-professor in the AmsterdamUMC (Precision Medicine in Respiratory Disease). In 2005 she started to work at Utrecht University, first as assistant Professor and in 2012 as associate Professor in Precision Medicine. From 2003-2005 she worked as a post-doc at the Human Genetics Center of the University of Texas in Houston. Her main research goal is to bring precision medicine into clinical practice. Moving away from using old-fashioned diagnostic labels, but instead using biomarkers to understand biological pathways and optimize therapy for the individual patient accordingly. She is among others Principal Investigator of the strategic public private partnership Precision Medicine for More Oxygen (P4O2), president of the Federation Innovative Medicine Research Netherlands (FIGON) and president of the European Association of Systems Medicine (EASYM). She published more than 300 peer reviewed articles.