Eelco de Koning
Professor of Diabetology
Universiteit Leiden
Biography
Eelco de Koning is professor of diabetology at the Leiden University Medical Center. He heads the LUMC diabetes center and coordinates the human islet transplantation program which is a national service. He also heads the national expertise center on Maturity-Onset Diabetes of the Young (MODY). His research is focused on innovative cell replacement therapies as treatment for patients with diabetes mellitus.
Eelco de Koning studied medicine at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands and received his medical doctorate in 1991. Subsequently, he moved to England and started research into islet biology and pathology at the Diabetes Research Laboratories in Oxford under supervision of Anne Clark and Robert Turner. He obtained a MRC Training Fellowship to finish these studies in Oxford which resulted in a Ph.D. thesis titled “Islet amyloid and islet amyloid polypeptide in diabetes” at the University of Utrecht in 1994.
