Connie Jimenez's Biography

Connie Jimenez, Head, VU University Medical Center

Connie R. Jimenez, Ph.D. is head of the OncoProteomics Laboratory and Associate Professor at the Dept. Medical Oncology of the VU University Medical Center in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. She is a biologist with an interest in disease pathway and biomarker discovery in cancer and neurodegenerate disease. She has a wide experience with biological and clinical applications of mass spectrometry. Het lab focuses on label-free mass spectrometry-based proteomics as a tool to address a range of biomedical and translational research questions.
In 2000, Dr. Jimenez initiated and coordinates the Netherlands Proteomics Platform and she is general council member of the European Proteomics Association. She is editorial board member of Molecular and Cellular Proteomics, Proteomics and of the Journal of Proteomics. She guest edited the special JoP issues “Organelle Proteomics” (2009) and “Cancer Proteomics” (2010).