W. Edward Visser
Professor
Department of Internal Medicine
Erasmus MC University
Netherlands
Biography
W. Edward Visser (MD, PhD), is endocrinologist-in-training at Erasmus MC, Rotterdam. His doctoral research under supervision of Prof. Dr. Theo J. Visser focused on the importance of thyroid hormone transporters and deiodines in (patho) physiology and was completed cum laude in 2010. Then he started his training as an internist endocrinologist. A European Marie-Curie Fellowship enabled him to follow a postdoctoral fellowship in 2013 at the University of Cambridge (UK). Various Dutch, European and American subsidies enable him to carry out further research.
Research Interest
Dr. Visser's research focuses primarily on the regulation of thyroid hormone at the cell level by thyroid hormone transporters, deiodines and nuclear receptors and the importance of this in certain syndromes (resistance to thyroid hormone, etc.). At the moment he is leading an international multi-center trial in which the effects of the Triac medicine are being investigated in patients with Allan-Herndon-Dudley syndrome (mutations in MCT8). He also investigates the role of thyroid hormone during aging. Dr. Visser has published more than 40 international scientific publications and is a reviewer for various international endocrinological journals.
