Max Nieuwdorp

Professor Max Nieuwdorp (b. 1977) studied medicine at Utrecht University and received a Ph.D. in diabetes at the Academic Medical Centre of the University of Amsterdam. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship on glycobiology at the University of California, San Diego, in the department of cellular and molecular medicine.

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Professor Nieuwdorp is currently chair of the AMC Diabetes Centre as well as chief of the Vascular Medicine Department. His research focuses on the intersection between hormones, the intestines and their residents, and human health.

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We Are Our Hormones

Hormones are invisible chemicals produced by our bodies that, by way of blood vessels, enable and direct different bodily functions throughout our lives. They are essential to our quality of sleep, the rhythm of our hearts, our body temperatures, sugar levels, digestion, stress responses, reproduction and much more. When our hormonal systems derail, the consequences are of vital importance to our health, and in some cases even to world history: during the Cold War, US President John F. Kennedy’s wildly swinging hormones almost caused nuclear disaster (to name just one example).

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