03/04/2026
Layal Chaker - Endocrine Tumours Group
Layal Chaker studied Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology at Erasmus University Rotterdam (cum laude). She also obtained her PhD cum laude from the Departments of Internal Medicine and Epidemiology at Erasmus MC, conducting part of her research at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Since 2021, she has been an internist-endocrinologist at the Department of Internal Medicine and a Clinical Epidemiologist at the Department of Epidemiology at Erasmus MC. She is also an adjunct lecturer in the Department of Epidemiology at Harvard.
Her clinical work is dedicated to treating patients with endocrine complications of immune-related therapies and diseases, pituitary pathologies, and general endocrine disorders.
She currently coordinates research across the spectrum of internal medicine, focusing on hormone and endocrine gland diseases (Endocrinology) and immune system disorders (Immunology) in relation to diseases of older age. Her research group conducts research projects on the intersect between clinical medicine and clinical epidemiology.
Links to your identifiers (ORCID, ResearchGate, Google Scholar): https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7855-5418
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Layal-Chaker-2