Academic Medical Center
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Erasmus Medical Center
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
annegreetveldhuis@live.nl
Annegreet Veldhuis-Vlug (1982) is currently training as a clinical fellow in Endocrinology at both the department of Endocrinology and Metabolism of the Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam and the Bone Center of the department of Endocrinology of the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam. In addition, she is continuing her postdoctoral research projects on bone marrow adiposity and bone metabolism.
She received her MD in 2007 (Leiden University) and during her medical studies she participated in several masterclasses and performed student research (honours programme) in the department of Nephrology of the Leiden University Medical Center and the Schoenberger lab at the La Jolla Institute of Allergy and Immunology, San Diego, USA. After graduating from medical school, she worked as an internal medicine resident in the ‘s Lands Hospitaal in Paramaribo, Surinam and started her training in Internal Medicine in 2008. She interrupted her clinical training for a 3-year PhD project on the neuroendocrine regulation of human bone metabolism at the University of Amsterdam where she obtained her PhD in 2015. She won several poster and presentation awards.
During her PhD project, she started a collaboration with prof. Clifford Rosen on bone marrow adiposity and bone metabolism. She joined the Rosen lab at the Maine Medical Center Research Institute in Scarborough, Maine, USA in May 2017 as a postdoctoral researcher. She obtained a prestigious Rubicon Fellowship from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO).
She was elected International Endocrine Scholar by the European Society for Endocrinology in 2017. She was also selected for a 5-year term as member of the Academy of European Calcified Tissue Society (ECTS) in 2017. In addition, she is currently a member of the Scientific Program Committee 2019 of the ECTS and a member of the Scientific Board of the Bone Marrow Adiposity Society.