Prof. Dr. Antoinette Maassen van den Brink is Professor of Neurovascular Pharmacology at the Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus MC University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. She studies the neurovascular aspects of migraine, with a special interest in the role of female sex hormones on its pathophysiology. Her research is translational in origin, including animal in vivo experimental models, human isolated tissue models, as well as human in vivo clinical models. She is President of the European Headache Federation and past board member of the Federation of European Pharmacological Societies. Further, she is a board member of the Dutch Headache Society and founding board member of the Dutch Society for Gender and Health. She has >230 scientific publications in international, peer-reviewed journals and received many prestigious research grants and awards from the American Headache Society, National Headache Foundation (USA), International Headache Society, Dutch Heart Foundation, Dutch Brain Foundation, the Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development, as well as the Dutch Research Council.
