Mohammad Arfan Ikram#
| Membership Number: | 7572 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BASIC AND CLINICAL TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2026 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.linkedin.com/in/arfan-ikram/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-0372-8585 |
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Present and Previous Positions
- 2017 - present Professor and Chair of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, NL
- 2017 - present Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology, Harvard Chan School of Public Health, USA
- 2024 - present Adjunct Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Center, NL
- 2022 - present President Netherlands Organization for Health Research and Development (ZonMw), NL (the largest national funder of health research, comparable to MRC in UK or NIH in USA)
- 2022 - present Member of executive board Netherlands Research Organization (NWO), NL (i.e. national science foundation)
- 2016 - present Principal Investigator Rotterdam Study
- 2016 - 2022 Vice-director Netherlands Institute for Health Sciences
- 2010 - 2017 Post-doc, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor in Neuroepidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, NL
Fields of Scholarship
- Cohort studies
- Alzheimer's disease
- Brain imaging
- Dementia
- Stroke
- Causal inference
- Epidemiology
- Risk factors
Honours and Awards
- 2024 Member of the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities (KHMW)
- 2022 Outstanding Leadership Award from the CHARGE Consortium
- 2017 Member of the Young Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences (DJA)
- 2015 ERC Starting Grant
- 2012 DeLeon-Prize in Neuroimaging from the Alzheimer Association
- 2011 PhD-prize for best PhD-thesis at the Erasmus MC and Batavian Society for Experimental Philosophy
- 2011 Best young researcher prize from the Erasmus University Rotterdam
