Country of Origin: The Netherlands
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Educational Background

• PhD - Marie Curie Research Fellowship, King's College University London, Institute of Psychiatry, Supervisors: Prof. David Collier and Prof. Ulrike Schmidt (2008 - present)
• Master Biology of Disease, Utrecht University, The Netherlands (2006 - 2008)
• Bachelor of Health Care in Nutrition and Dietetics (Dietician/Nutritionist), The Hague University, The Netherlands (2004 - 2006)
• Bachelor of Biomedical Sciences, Utrecht University, The Netherlands (2001 - 2004)

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Current Research Project

• Biomarkers of Anorexia Nervosa
  

Contributions on conferences, workshops

• Sietske G. Helder, Ricardo Sainz-Fuertes, Frederique Van den Eynde, Anna V. Oldershaw, Janet Treasure, Iain C. Campbell, Simon Lovestone, Ulrike Schmidt, David A. Collier. Biomarkers of Anorexia Nervosa. Biomarkers in Brain Disease conference, Oxford, UK, January 2009

Presentations:

• Sietske G. Helder, Ricardo Sainz-Fuertes, Frederique Van den Eynde, Anna V. Oldershaw, Janet Treasure, Iain C. Campbell, Simon Lovestone, Ulrike Schmidt, David A. Collier. Biomarkers of Anorexia Nervosa. XVIth World Congress on Psychiatric Genetics, Osaka, Japan, October 2008 (Selected for an oral presentation in the Young Science Track)

Poster:

• Sietske G. Helder, Ricardo Sainz-Fuertes, Frederique Van den Eynde, Anna V. Oldershaw, Janet Treasure, Iain C. Campbell, Simon Lovestone, Ulrike Schmidt, David A. Collier. Biomarkers of Anorexia Nervosa. NIHR Biomedical Research Centre for Mental Health- Autumn Seminar, London, November 2008
• Sietske G. Helder, Ricardo Sainz-Fuertes, Frederique Van den Eynde, Anna V. Oldershaw, Janet Treasure, Iain C. Campbell, Simon Lovestone, Ulrike Schmidt, David A. Collier. Biomarkers of Anorexia Nervosa. INTACT workshop Budapest, October 2008
• SG Helder, EM van der Zwaal, MCM Luijendijk, GJ Stam, LJMJ Vanderschuren, RAH Adan, SE la Fleur. The role of melanocortins in food-motivated behaviour. 6th Endo-Neuro-Psycho Meeting, Doorwerth, Netherlands, June 2007 (Winner of the Gerard Boer Neuroscience poster award)

Special interest

• In the biology of eating, specifically the genetic and neuro-endocrinological basis of eating disorders and obesity 
• Multidisciplinary and translational research approaches