Jeanine Prompers (J.J.)

Prof. dr. Jeanine Prompers is Professor of Organ-Specific Metabolic Imaging in the Department of Human Biology, NUTRIM Institute of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism and the Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Maastricht UMC+. Her research focuses on the development of multi-nuclear MRS and MRI methods for the in vivo study of tissue metabolism in metabolic diseases. She has a strong track record on the application of ultra-high field MRS to measure energy and lipid metabolism in skeletal muscle, liver and heart, in particular in the setting of obesity and diabetes. She is one of the pioneers of deuterium metabolic imaging and was the first to perform this technique in human brain and liver at ultra-high field. Since 2024, Prof. Prompers is also CEO of Scannexus, the ultra-high field MRI facility on the Brightlands campus in Maastricht.