Marjan van Erk

Marjan van Erk is project leader and scientist focused on nutrigenomics, nutritional systems biology and personalized health at TNO Quality of Life, one of the largest independent research organisations in the area of nutrition world-wide. She has 10 years of experience in application of genomics in nutrition research, starting with a PhD applying microarrays to study the role of phytochemicals in colon cancer prevention. Her interest is in combining transcriptome, proteome and metabolome data to investigate effects of nutrition and nutrition related bioactive compounds on health promotion and disease prevention. This includes identification of sub-groups of responders or non-responders, thereby moving towards personalized health.
She is an active member of the European Nutrigenomics Organisation, an EU-funded partnership of 32 universities and research institutes in the area of nutrigenomics, contributing to data analysis and bioinformatics activities and organizing a course on microarray data analysis.

Correspondence: Dr. Marjan van Erk, TNO Quality of Life, PO box 360, 3700 AJ Zeist, The Netherlands.

Email: marjan.vanerk@tno.nl