Patrick Schrauwen

Department of Nutrition and Movement Sciences, NUTRIM School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands.

Professor Patrick Schrauwen is professor of metabolic aspects of type 2 diabetes mellitus at the NUTRIM school for Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, Maastricht University, the Netherlands. His multidisciplinary team combines cellular and molecular biology techniques and state-of-the-art imaging techniques with human clinical intervention trails. Since 2010, he has been the leader of the division ‘Obesity, type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular health’ at NUTRIM. In 2016, Prof. Dr Schrauwen was awarded the MINKOWSKI Award of the EASD, the most prestigious European award in diabetes research for researchers <45 years old.