Clinical geneticist and professor of translational research in hereditary cerebral vascular diseases
Prof. Dr. S.A.J. Lesnik Oberstein
Area(s) of expertise:
Hereditary diseases of the small cerebral vessels, Cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarctions and leukoencephalopathy (CADASIL)
Hereditary diseases of the small cerebral vessels, Cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarctions and leukoencephalopathy (CADASIL)
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Introduction
Since 1998, I have been working on hereditary cerebral vascular diseases, particularly those affecting the small cerebral vessels. These diseases cause strokes and dementia in patients, typically starting in middle age. In 2003, I received my PhD for my thesis on the hereditary cerebral vascular disease CADASIL, and in 2008, I completed my medical specialist training in clinical genetics. As head of the LUMC expertise center for hereditary cerebral vascular diseases, I am involved in both patient care and scientific research and education. In recent years, researchers in my research group and I have been awarded several grants, for example from ZonMw and the Brain Foundation, for research into hereditary cerebral vascular diseases such as CADASIL.
