Ruth J. F. Loos
General / Preventive / Lipids
Broad Institute
About
Ruth J. F. Loos works in General / Preventive / Lipids affiliated with Broad Institute.
Ruth J. F. Loos is a Professor and Vice Executive Director at the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research at the University of Copenhagen. She also holds affiliations with the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. Her research centers on identifying genetic factors influencing obesity and related metabolic traits, including those impacting cardiovascular health.
Research focus
Genetics of obesity and cardiometabolic traitsGenetic epidemiology of lipids and blood pressureGene-environment interactions in cardiovascular riskPrecision medicine for metabolic disorders affecting the heartGenomic predictors of obesity-related heart disease
Impact
1,172 pubs · 153,240 cites · h-index 170
Training
PhD
University of Leuven
2001
Affiliations
Work Experience
Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, University of Copenhagen
2021 - Present
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
2011 - Present
MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge
2005 - 2011
Pennington Biomedical Research Center
2001 - 2005