Fina Kurreeman

Fina Kurreeman is a Mauritian-Dutch medical geneticist and professor of rheumatology at the Leiden University Medical Center. Kurreeman has authored 52 papers and received more than 6000 citations for her work in the genetic basis of Inflammatory disorders, in particular studying the role of non-coding RNA in disease pathologies. She was awarded a 2011 Leiden University Medical Center Fellowship.

Education Kureeman completed her postdoc between the Harvard Medical School Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Broad Institute, in the laboratory of George Church.

In 2020, Kurreeman advocated for international support for Mauritius in the wake of the MV Wakashio oil spill, noting the biomedical potential of biodiversity and how such climate disasters can threaten future research. stressing the importance of biobanking and sequencing projects.

Prices and recognitions 2009 - UNESCO-L’Oréal For Women in Science International Fellowships