Ruben van Eijk
Introduction
Ruben van Eijk is an MD and biostatistician appointed as Associate Professor at the University Medical Center Utrecht (UMC Utrecht), The Netherlands. He obtained his Ph.D. in neurology/biostatistics, entitled: ‘Optimizing the design and conduct of clinical trials for ALS’. He was a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Innovative Study Design and Department of Biomedical Data Sciences, Stanford University.
His current research focusses on new statistical models to combine survival and longitudinal data, integration of real-world evidence into drug development, as well as developing new endpoints that addresses the multidimensional nature of ALS and differences in patient preference.
Academic background
- Bachelor: Medicine – Utrecht University – 2009
- Master: Medicine – Utrecht University – 2014
- Master: Epidemiology, track biostatistics – Utrecht University – 2017 (cum laude)
- PhD project: ‘Optimizing the Design and Conduct of Clinical Trials for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis’ – Prof. dr. L.H. van den Berg & prof. dr. M.J.C. Eijkemans – Utrecht University – 17 September 2019 (cum laude)
My publications
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For an overview of Ruben's publications, see:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/18iHzwzc5vTkM/bibliography/public/
My ALS Centre website articles
Awards and grants
- 2024 – 2026: Veni Fellowship, Dutch Research Council, The Hague, The Netherlands
- 2023: People’s Choice Poster Award, MNDA, Southampton, United Kingdom
- 2022: ENCALS Young Investigator Award, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- 2021 – 2024: ALS Talent Fellowship, ALS Foundation, The Hague, The Netherlands
- 2020 – 2021: Rubicon Fellowship, Dutch Research Council, The Hague, The Netherlands
- 2020: Paulo Gontijo Medicine Award, Sao Paulo, Brasil
- 2019: Cum Laude (with honors) distinction Ph.D. Neurology/Statistics, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- 2019: Clinical Poster Prize, MNDA, Perth, Australia
- 2017: Cum Laude (with honors) distinction M.S. Epidemiology, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- 2016: Clinical Poster Prize, MNDA, Dublin, Ireland
Supervised PhD students
- 2022: Adriaan D. de Jongh – UMC Utrecht – ‘Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: Disease progression, variability and outcome measures’
- 2023: Jaap N.E. Bakers – UMC Utrecht – ‘Towards Remote Clinical Outcome Measurements In Motor Neuron Disorders’
- 2024: Mark R. Janse van Mantgem – UMC Utrecht – ‘Metabolic Alterations in Patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis’
