Jeroen Derksen

Jeroen Derksen obtained his Master’s degree in Nutritional and Molecular Physiology at the Wageningen University & Research in 2015. Since then, Jeroen is interested and involved in tertiary prevention research including lifestyle, body composition, diet and colorectal cancer outcomes at the University Medical Center Utrecht. He obtained a Master’s degree in Clinical Epidemiology at the Utrecht University in 2018. From 2015 to 2020 he conducted his PhD research on (modifiable) lifestyle factors and colorectal cancer survivorship at the University Medical Center Utrecht, Dept. of Medical Oncology and the Dept. of Epidemiology, Julius Center. After completing his PhD, he continued at the Julius Center and is currently involved in a Regional collaboration that aims to deliver individualized dietary and physical activity recommendations to patients with colorectal cancer and to provide input for national dietary guidelines. This project is part of the “Regio Deal Foodvalley”, program "Nutrition and Health, from early start to the old day", workpackage "Nutrition and Oncology".