Vincent Timmerman is a

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scientist working at the VIB Department of Molecular Genetics at the

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Christine Van Broeckhoven Christine Van Broeckhoven (born 9 April 1953) is a Belgian molecular biologist and professor in Molecular genetics at the University of Antwerp ( Antwerp, Belgium). She is also leading the VIB Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Antwe ...

. His research is focused on inherited disorders of the peripheral nervous system, classified as hereditary motor and/or sensory

neuropathies Peripheral neuropathy, often shortened to neuropathy, is a general term describing disease affecting the peripheral nerves, meaning nerves beyond the brain and spinal cord. Damage to peripheral nerves may impair sensation, movement, gland, or o ...

and the most common inherited peripheral neuropathy is Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) disease or Hereditary Motor and Sensory Neuropathy (HMSN). Vincent Timmerman obtained a PhD at the University of Antwerp in 1993 and is VIB Group leader since 1999. He became Associate Professor, at the University of Antwerp since 2002. On 22 May 2007 Vincent Timmerman and Peter De Jonghe received the Solvay Prize for their work on Charcot-Marie-Tooth diseaseSolvay Prize
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References

* Züchner S, Noureddine M, Kennerson M, Verhoeven K, Claeys K, De Jonghe P, Merory J, Oliveira a, Speer c, Stenger e, Walizada G, Zhu D, Pericak-Vance a, Nicholson G, Timmerman V, Vance M, Mutations in the pleckstrin homology domain of dynamin 2 cause dominant intermediate Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, NAT GENET 37, 289–294, 2005 * Züchner S, Mersiyanova v, Muglia M, Bissar-Tadmouri N, Rochelle J, Dadali l, Zappia M, Nelis E, Patitucci A, Senderek J, Parman Y, Evgrafov O, De Jonghe P, Takahashi Y, Tsuji S, Pericak-Vance a, Quattrone A, Battologlu E, Polyakov v, Timmerman V, Schröder m, Vance M, Mutations in the mitochondrial GTPase mitofusin 2 cause Charcot-Marie-Tooth neuropathy type 2A, NAT GENET 36, 449–451, 2004

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