Professor Nieuwdorp (1977) studied Medicine at Utrecht University and received his PhD on diabetes at the Academic Medical Center of the University of Amsterdam (AMC-UvA; under supervision of Professor John Kastelein). After a residency in Internal Medicine and fellowship in Endocrinology & Vascular Medicine at the AMC-UvA he performed a postdoctoral fellowship on glycobiology at University of California, San Diego in the department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine under Professor Jeff Esko. Professor Nieuwdorp is currently chair of Diabetes and heads of Amsterdam UMC Vascular Medicine department. He is one of the co-founders of the Microbiota center Amsterdam (MICA).  His group focuses on translational research aimed at resolving diabetes and its complications by modification of the gut microbiota. Prof Nieuwdorp has published > 360 peer reviewed articles including papers in Nature Medicine, Science, Cell, NEJM, Cell Metabolism, Gut and Gastroenterology. Among many projects professor Nieuwdorp participated or coordinated is also an ERC Advanced grant of 2.5 million euros for a major study into the underlying causes of excessive alcohol production in the human intestine, that he has received in 2024.