Bas Heijmans's Biography

Bas Heijmans, Associate Professor, Leiden University Medical Center

Bas Heijmans (1972) was trained as a (molecular) biologist and studies the role of genomic variation in human disease and ageing. His recent focus is on how the early-life environment can induce persistent changes in the human epigenome and how these changes may contribute to metabolic disease. This topic fits in his broader research interest to use genetic, epigenomics, transcriptomics and other molecular data to generate insight in the processes underlying common disease and longevity.