HA Delemarre |  |
| The obese child | |
| Biography | |
Professor Henriette Delemarre-van de Waal started her career in pediatric endocrinology as a fellow with professor Leo Van den Brande in Utrecht. Thereafter she went to the VU university medical center, where developed her own department in pediatric endocrinology. Her research concerns the central regulation of puberty and growth. The diagnostic and therapeutic use of pulsatile GnRH was a major issue of her group. In 1992, on a Querido stipendium, she spent a sabbatical leave with professor Robert Steiner in Seattle, where she worked with the different molecular biologic techniques. After return a fundamental animal line was started in perinatal growth retarded rat models. Last years the research line has focused on the the genetic and environmental control of growth/development and metabolism as well as the consequences of intra-uterine and early postnatal malnutrition on growth & development and metabolic regulation by central and peripheral controllers in the animal model and in the human. | |