Dr A. (Astrid) van Hylckama Vlieg

Astrid van Hylckama Vlieg obtained her PhD at the department of Clinical Epidemiology in 2003. Since then, she obtained several personal grants to fill post-doc positions at international centers, i.e., department of Haematology, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, UK and the department of epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, USA. Currently, she is working as an associate professor at the department. Astrid is working on several projects on risk factors for venous thrombosis. Additional to research, Astrid is involved in many teaching activities. Among others, she is coordinator of the Honours Epidemiology track. She is representing our department in the multidisciplinary meetings organised by the LUMC (MDO), aimed to help researchers in the early stages of the design of their research and is a member of the Toetsing Commissie Biobanken & Biomaterialen (TCBio). Furthermore, she regularly reviews scientific articles submitted to peer-reviewed scientific journals.

During her career, Astrid received several personal research grants including a British Society for Haematology Scholarship, a NWO VENI grant, and a Fondation LeDucq Transatlantic fellowship. Furthermore, she was involved in several project grants including grants from the Netherlands Heart foundation, NWO, the Dutch thrombosis foundation (TSN), and EU. Her research is mainly focused on risk factors for venous thrombosis but she is also working on projects on other diseases such as a project on excess mortality due to Covid-19. Her studies on the assessment of risk factors for venous thrombosis are focused in particular on risk factors in the elderly, biochemical risk factors, and unravelling the risk of sex specific risk factors for venous thrombosis including the use of hormones. Additionally, an important focus is to unravel the genetic causes of a first and recurrent venous thrombosis and her research also moved towards other fields of omics research.