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Assistant professor of Molecular Genetics |
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| Research area | Theme II | ||||
| Phone / fax | 043-3881209 | ||||
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Dr. J.J.F.P. Luiken studied biology at the University of Utrecht, and graduated in 1988, specialized in biochemistry and molecular genetics. After military service and a PhD project on liver metabolism at the Univeristy of Amsterdam, he started working at Maasticht University as post-doc in Nov 1994 to study the role of fatty acid transporters in the heart. Starting in 1997, he worked for 2½ years in the lab of Prof. Bonen, University of Waterloo, Canada, to learn novel techniques to study fatty acid uptake by muscle tissues. In June 1999, he returned to Maastricht on a postdoctoral Dekker stipendium of the Netherlands Heart Foundation to introduce these novel techniques, first in the department of Physiology and since 2003 in the Department of Molecular Genetics. In 2000, he won the prestigious FASEB Award on Endocrinology and Metabolism for his discovery of a novel mechanism of acute regulation of fatty acid uptake via translocation of fatty acid transporters from intracellular stores to the cell surface. In 2002, he was awarded a VIDI grant to continue his research on the identification of the cellular machinery involved in fatty acid transporter translocation and to study the role of fatty acid transporters in cardiac disease (diabetic cardiomyopathy). In 2008, he was appointed as staff member of the department of Molecular Genetics. He is also a member of the editorial board of the Archives of Physiology and Biochemistry.
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