P. Eline Slagboom is professor of molecular epidemiology. She is head of the section of Molecular Epidemiology within the department of Biomedical Data Sciences. She is chair of the LUMC Medical Research Profile on Ageing and of the DUSRA – Dutch Society for Research on Ageing. She is board member of BBMRI-NL (Biobanking and Biomolecular Resources Research Infrastructure) steering national studies in metabolomics. Slagboom is member of the organising committee of various prestigious international conferences (such as the Welcome Trust, UK).

Slagboom attracted many talented researchers and the group expanded over the years through the grants she obtained and collaborations with industry. The largest projects she coordinated sofar include a NWO supported genotyping facility, a large scale FP7-EU project (IDEAL: Integrated research on DEvelopmental determinants of Aging and Longevity) and the Netherlands Consortium for Healthy Ageing.