Chantal Mathieu

Chantal Mathieu is Professor of Internal Medicine at the University Hospital Gasthuisberg, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. In her role as a clinical diabetologist, Dr Mathieu is involved daily in the treatment of patients with type 1 or type 2 diabetes. Her main basic research interests focus on the pathogenesis and prevention of type 1 diabetes, as well as islet transplantation. Dr Mathieu is also active in the clinical organization of diabetes care and patient education. She is the author or co-author of more than 100 peer-reviewed research papers and she is currently the President of the Flemish Diabetes Society. Dr Mathieu graduated from the University of Leuven as MD in 1988 and subsequently went on to study for a PhD examining pathogenetical and therapeutical aspects of immune intervention in animal models of type 1 diabetes.