Baziel van Engelen

Baziel van Engelen is a professor of neuromuscular disorders at the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre (RUNMC), where he co-coordinates the facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) Clinical Trial Research Network. He has coauthored numerous studies of myotonic dystrophies, FSHD and inflammatory myopathies. Baziel is a member of the scientific advisory board of the European Neuromuscular Center and serves on the research committee of Euro-NMD, a European reference network for the thematic grouping of rare neuromuscular diseases. He received his M.D. from RUNMC and his Ph.D. from the University of Amsterdam and completed his neurology residency at Radboud University and the University of Berlin. He later completed a research fellowship in the department of neurology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.