Joris Deelen PhD

Academic career
2020 – heden Onderzoeksgroepsleider – Max Planck Instituut voor Biologie van Veroudering, Keulen, Duitsland

2016 – 2020 Postdoctoral researcher Biological Mechanisms of Ageing (Linda Partridge), Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne, Germany

2013 – 2016 Postdoctoral researcher, Molecular Epidemiology, Department of Biomedical Data Sciences (P. Eline Slagboom), Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands

Education
2008 – 2014  Doctoral research (PhD) in Molecular Epidemiology (cum laude)

Title of the thesis: “Genetic and biomarker studies of human longevity”, Leiden University, Netherlands

2006 – 2008 Master of Science (MSc) in Biomedical Sciences, Leiden University, Netherlands

2003 – 2006 Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Biomedical Sciences, Leiden University, Netherlands

External funding
2022 – 2027 ERC Starting Grant

2022 – 2026 Longevity Impetus Grant

2017 Humboldt Research Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers

Selected publications

From mutation to mechanism: deciphering the molecular function of genetic variants linked to human ageing. Baghdadi, M., Hinterding, H. M., Partridge, L., Deelen, J.  (2022) Briefings in Functional Genomics, 1, 25, 13-23

Multivariate genomic scan implicates novel loci and haem metabolism in human ageing. Timmers, P.R.H.J., Wilson, J. F., Joshi, P. K., Deelen, J.
(2020) Nat Commun, 11, 1, 3570

A metabolic profile of all-cause mortality risk identified in an observational study of 44,168 individuals. Deelen, J., Kettunen, J., Fischer, K., van der Spek, A., Trompet, S., Kastenmuller, G., Boyd, A., Zierer, J.van den Akker, E. B., Ala-Korpela, M., Amin, N., Demirkan, A., Ghanbari, M., van Heemst, D., Ikram, M. A.van Klinken, J. B., Mooijaart, S. P., Peters, A., Salomaa, V., Sattar, N., Spector, T. D., Tiemeier, H., Verhoeven, A., Waldenberger, M., Wurtz, P., Davey Smith, G., Metspalu, A., Perola, M., Menni, C., Geleijnse, J. M., Drenos, F., Beekman, M., Jukema, J. W., van Duijn, C. M., Slagboom, P. E.
(2019) Nat Commun, 10, 1, 3346

A meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies identifies multiple longevity genes. Deelen, J., Evans, D. S., Arking, D. E., Tesi, N., Nygaard, M., Liu, X., Wojczynski, M. K., Biggs, M. L.van der Spek, A., Atzmon, G., Ware, E. B., Sarnowski, C., Smith, A. V., Seppala, I., Cordell, H. J., Dose, J.Amin, N., Arnold, A. M., Ayers, K. L., Barzilai, N., Becker, E. J., Beekman, M., Blanche, H., Christensen, K., Christiansen, L., Collerton, J. C., Cubaynes, S., Cummings, S. R., Davies, K., Debrabant, B., Deleuze, J. F., Duncan, R., Faul, J. D., Franceschi, C., Galan, P., Gudnason, V., Harris, T. B., Huisman, M., Hurme, M. A., Jagger, C., Jansen, I., Jylha, M., Kahonen, M., Karasik, D., Kardia, S. L. R., Kingston, A., Kirkwood, T. B. L., Launer, L. J., Lehtimaki, T., Lieb, W., Lyytikainen, L. P., Martin-Ruiz, C., Min, J., Nebel, A., Newman, A. B., Nie, C., Nohr, E. A., Orwoll, E. S., Perls, T. T., Province, M. A., Psaty, B., M., Raitakari, O. T., Reinders, M. J. T., Robine, J. M., Rotter, J. I., Sebastiani, P., Smith, J., Sorensen, T. I. A., Taylor, K. D., Uitterlinden, A. G., van der Flier, W., van der Lee, S. J., van Duijn, C. M., van Heemst, D., Vaupel, J. W., Weir, D.Ye, K., Zeng, Y., Zheng, W., Holstege, H., Kiel, D. P., Lunetta, K. L., Slagboom, P. E., Murabito, J. M. (2019) Nat Commun, 10, 1, 3669

Facing up to the global challenges of ageing. Partridge, L., Deelen, J., Slagboom, P. E. (2018) Nature, 561, 7721, 45-56