Sarah De Saeger, PhD, is a Senior Full Professor in the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences at Ghent University in Belgium and Director of the Centre of Excellence in Mycotoxicology and Public Health. She is a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Johannesburg, South-Africa.
Dr. De Saeger’s research focuses on food safety, chemical analysis, and mycotoxicology. She is a Member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts.
She coordinates international collaborations, including the Horizon Europe funded project UP-RISE, an EU–African Union partnership strengthening food safety systems and addressing mycotoxin contamination, and MYTOX-SOUTH®, which promotes global collaboration, research, and capacity building in mycotoxicology, particularly in the Global South.
Dr De Saeger also coordinates FLEXiGUT, the Flemish Exposome Project, which brings together researchers from Ghent University, the University of Antwerp, KU Leuven -VIB, and Hasselt University to investigate how dietary and environmental exposures affect gut health and contribute to chronic disease.
Watch the NEXUS podcast featuring Dr. Sarah De Saeger, “Mycotoxins and the Exposome: Exposure, Health, and Global Research”.
Fun Fact:
- My terrace vegetable garden has taught me as much about plant diseases as any textbook. Watching fungi claim up to half of my harvest has given me firsthand insight into why safeguarding crops remains such a critical part of feeding the world.