Cornelis Blauwendraat, PhD

Cornelis serves as co-lead for the Global Parkinson’s Genetics Program (GP2). Cornelis is also the Chief Data Strategy Officer of the Coalition for Aligning Science (CAS), where he provides strategic guidance on the organization’s data strategy and ensures that data assets are used effectively to achieve CAS’s goals across the initiatives under the Coalition’s management. Previously, Cornelis was a Stadtman Investigator at National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Aging on the Bethesda campus. While there, his lab worked on dissecting the genetic basis of neurodegenerative disorders including Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease using large omics datasets with the goal of understanding disease mechanisms and identifying potential future therapeutic targets. Cornelis received his MSc in Biomedical Sciences from VU University, Netherlands and his PhD in Neuroscience from University of Tübingen, Germany. Both his MSc and PhD were focused on dissecting the complex genetic architecture across neurodegenerative diseases.