Wilma D.J. van de Berg, PhD

Prof. dr. Wilma D.J. Van de Berg is professor in Cellular Neurodegeneration, Parkinson’s  at Amsterdam UMC, with a strong focus on understanding cellular disease mechanisms leading to alpha-synuclein pathology and lysosomal dysfunction and biomarker research in Parkinson’s disease and related neurodegenerative disorders. She is a leading expert in neuropathology of Parkinson’s, brain/biobanking and high-end microscopy analysis of human brain tissue and published >100 peer reviewed manuscript (h-index 50). She is the chair of the section Clinical Neuroanatomy and Biobanking (CNAB) and is the founder of the Normal Aging Brain Collection Amsterdam. She (co-)leads several initiatives towards a biological classification of Parkinson’s disease, including the multicenter longitudinal cohort study ‘Profiling Parkinson’s’ (ProPARK), EU consortia 4DPD-OMICS, LysMitoPAD and NEUROCOV. She is the program leader Neurodegeneration at Amsterdam UMC, member of the steering committee of the Amsterdam UMC Parkinson and Movement disorders center and president of the Dutch Parkinson Scientists association.