Harold Snieder#
| Membership Number: | 6656 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLINICAL & VETERINARY SCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2023 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.rug.nl/research/epidemiology/snieder |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-1949-2298 |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/harold-snieder-47006446/?originalSubdomain=nl |
Present and Previous Positions
- 11/2006 - present Professor of Genetic Epidemiology, University Medical Center Groningen, The Netherlands. Head of Unit of Genetic Epidemiology and Bioinformatics.
- 05/2012 - 06/2015 Visiting Professor (10%), Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Estonia
- 06/2005 - 10/2006 Full Professor of Pediatrics [tenured]] with joint appointment at the dept. of Biostatistics, Medical College of Georgia, USA
- 10/2000 - 06/2005 Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Medical College of Georgia, USA
- 11/1996 - 09/2000 Genetic Statistician & Honorary Lecturer, Twin Research & Genetic Epidemiology Unit, St Thomas’ Hospital, King’s College, London, UK
Fields of Scholarship
- Twin and family studies
- Genetic epidemiology
- Quantitative genetics
- Major depression
- Epigenetic epidemiology
- Hypertension and blood pressure
- Cardiac autonomic function
- Cardiometabolic and renal disease
- Psychosocial stress
Honours and Awards
- 2020 Top paper of Hypertension in category Population Science for: Zafarmand MH, ..., Snieder H, Vrijkotte T. Influence of Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension-Type Diet, Known Genetic Variants and Their Interplay on Blood Pressure in Early Childhood ABCD Study. Hypertension. 2020;75(1):59-70
- 2017 Top paper of Hypertension in category Basic Science for: “Wain LV, Vaez A, Jansen R, ..., Snieder H*, Caulfield MJ*, Ehret G*. Novel Blood Pressure Locus and Gene Discovery Using Genome-Wide Association Study and Expression Data Sets From Blood and the Kidney. Hypertension. 2017 Sep;70(3).” *equal contribution
- 2017 Society for Health Psychology Distinguished International Affiliate for “unusual and outstanding contributions” to health psychology
- 2017 Allianz European Demography Award 2017 for the thesis of my PhD student Felix Tropf
- 2016 Prize for best thesis of University Medical Center Groningen 2015/2016 awarded to my PhD student Leanne K. Küpers
- 2002 David Fulker Award (together with Edwin van den Oord) for the best publication in Behavior Genetics in the year 2002: Van den Oord EJCG & Snieder H (2002). Including quantitative trait loci in path models to study the interplay between genes and environment. Behavior Genetics, 32, 1-19. See also: Hewitt JK (2003). Announcement of the Fulker Award for a paper published in Behavior Genetics, Volume 32, 2002. Behavior Genetics, 33(6), 731
