Eric Steegers

Eric A.P. Steegers, MD, PhD
Professor of Obstetrics and Prenatale Medicine. Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
My current research interests relate to the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease paradigm involving the complex pathophysiology of cardiovascular and placental related adverse first trimester outcomes and the consequences for fetal and maternal health as well as disease in later life. This work is largely embedded in the Generation R study, a population-based prospective cohort study among 10,000 pregnant women and their children and the Rotterdam Predict Study, an ongoing hospital based periconception cohort study, including embryonic and placental growth trajectories (3D-US and virtual reality) and tissue-specific epigenetic studies. I am one of the PIs of both cohorts. New knowledge from translational research in these areas is being disseminated and translated in evidence-based local and national transmural preconception and early pregnancy programs for improved risk selection and general and personalized interventions with a special emphasis on high risk and socially deprived reproductive target groups, in close collaboration with related fields like Public Health. My mission is to contribute to the primary and secondary prevention of adverse pregnancy outcomes and disease in later life in current and next generations.
D.O.B 13-01-1961. Author/co-author (PubMed) of 610 publications (Hirsch index 47). Completed the supervision of 47 PhD theses, while another 20 are ongoing. Listed as most cited author in the field of Reproductive Biomedicine 2007 – 2013 (Lab Times 2015; 4: 32-34.