# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/christine-van-broeckhoven
# Generated: 2026-08-15T00:40:35.250Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/christine-van-broeckhoven"
name: "Christine Van Broeckhoven"
slug: "christine-van-broeckhoven"
description: "Christine Van Broeckhoven is a Belgian molecular biologist and professor in Molecular genetics at the University of Antwerp. She is also leading the VIB Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Antwerp of the Flanders Institute for Biotechnology (VIB). Christine Van Broeckhoven does research on Alzheimer dementia, bipolar mental disorders and other neurological diseases. Since 1983 she has had her own laboratory for molecular genetics at the University of Antwerp, and since 2005 is focussing her research on neurodegenerative brain diseases. She is an associate editor of the scientific journal Genes, Brain and Behavior."
tagline: "Belgian molecular biologist and politician"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1953-04-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.27
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.40648
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Христине Ван Брукховен"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Van_Broeckhoven"
    title: "Christine Van Broeckhoven"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Van_Broeckhoven"
    title: "Christine Van Broeckhoven"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Van_Broeckhoven"
    title: "Christine Van Broeckhoven"
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    title: "کریستین ون برووکیون"
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    title: "Christine Van Broeckhoven"
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  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Van_Broeckhoven"
    title: "Christine Van Broeckhoven"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump