Prof Dr Ir Matty Weijenberg, Ph.D. (M.P.)

The molecular epidemiological research conducted within the research team is focused on lifestyle factors in relation to the incidence and prognosis of colorectal cancer while accounting for tumor heterogeneity, genetic variation, and molecular markers, and on lifestyle factors in relation to the quality of life of individuals who have survived colorectal cancer. The research is mostly embedded within two prospective cohort studies, i.e. the Netherlands Cohort Study on diet and cancer (NLCS) which is focused on the etiology and prognosis of cancer, and the Energy for life after Colo-Rectal cancer study (the EnCoRe study) which is focused on the prognosis and quality of life after the diagnosis of cancer.

Expertise

Molecular epidemiology, colorectal cancer epidemiology, gene-environment interaction, nutrition, physical activity, lifestyle, (epi)genetics, metabolic factors, cancer survivors, primary prevention, tertiary prevention

Professional career history

2016-present: Chair of the Department of Epidemiology, Maastricht University, The Netherlands

2016-2021: Program leader of the Program Prevention, GROW-School for Oncology and Developmental Biology, Maastricht University, The Netherlands

2012-present: Professor of Molecular Epidemiology of Cancer, Maastricht University, The Netherlands

2009-2012: Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Maastricht University, The Netherlands

1996-2009: Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Maastricht University, Maastricht

1996-1997: Assistant Professor of Epidemiology (Unilever Chair), Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium

1992-1996: Scientist, National Institute of Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands

M.P. Weijenberg

Full professor - Personal chair
Epidemiologie, School for Public Health and Prim Care, Fac. Health, Medicine and Life Sciences
ORCID