Mariette Boon MD, PhD

Mariëtte Boon (1988) studied medicine and biomedical sciences and obtained her doctorate cum laude (2014) from the Department of Internal Medicine. She is currently training as a specialist in internal medicine (HMC +) and combines research with clinical training.

During her Ph.D. training, Mariëtte Boon set up an interdisciplinary line of research on the biology of brown fat and its therapeutic potential. She has received various research grants, including grants from the Executive Board of the LUMC, Diabetes Fund Netherlands, NWO-Rubicon, RICS, and the European Foundation for the Study of Diabetes (EFSD). She has also won several awards for her research, including the prestigious Heineken Young Scientist Award for Medicine 2016 and the Gratama Science Award 2019. She has supervised 6 Ph.D. students to date and has published more than 70 papers, including in the scientific journals Nat Med, Nat Commun, Diabetes, Diabetologia, and Cell Metab. She is one of the founders and past president of the Young Dutch Society for Endocrinology. Together with Prof. Liesbeth van Rossum (Erasmus MC), she wrote the bestseller VET important', a book for the lay public about how body fat works and how you can effectively combat overweight and obesity. In 2020 this book will be published in 10 countries.