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University Medical Center Groningen

Senior Clinical and Research Staff

All staff can be reached at the following address and telephone number:
Dept. of Genetics CB50, University Medical Center Groningen
P.O. Box 30.001, 9700 RB  GRONINGEN, the Netherlands

Telephone +31 50 3617100, Fax + 31 50 3617231, Email

Name Position
Principal investigators
Prof. Nine Knoers, MD, PhD Head of Department

Prof. Richard Sinke, PhD

Professor of Genome Diagnostics, Project leader within the program ‘Centrum voor Laboratorium Diagnostiek en Research’
Prof. Cisca Wijmenga, PhD Lodewijk Sandkuil Professor of Human Genetics, Rector Magificus of the University of Groningen
Prof. Lude Franke, PhD Professor of Functional Genomics
Prof. Irene van Langen, MD, PhD Professor of Clinical Genetics, Program leader for ELSI
Prof. Conny van Ravenswaaij, MD, PhD Professor of Clinical Dysmorphology
Prof. Rolf Sijmons, MD, PhD

Professor of Medical Translational Genetics, clinical geneticist

Prof. Morris Swertz, PhD Head of Genomics Coordination Center and MOLGENIS team, Professor of BioInformatics - ‘Biomedical BiG Data Science’
Prof. Dineke Verbeek, PhD Rosalind Franklin Fellow, Associate professor, neurogenetics
Prof. Jingyuan Fu, PhD Professor of Systems Medicine, VICI and ERC consolidator grant holder
Prof. Alexandra (Sasha) Zhernakova, MD, PhD

Professor of Human Genome and Exposome, Rosalind Franklin Fellow, VIDI and ERC starting grant holder

Iris Jonkers, PhD Adjunct professor of Immunogenetics, Rosalind Franklin Fellow, VIDI grant holder
Sebo Withoff, PhD Associate professor, complex diseases
Serena Sanna, PhD Senior researcher in Wijmenga group, complex diseases
Vinod Kumar Magadi Gopalaiah, PhD Assistant professor, functional genomics in infectious diseases
Yvonne Vos, PhD Clinical molecular geneticist
Jan Jongbloed, PhD Clinical molecular geneticist
Jan C. Oosterwijk, MD, PhD Clinical geneticist
Mieke Kerstjens, MD, PhD Clinical geneticist
Peter van den Akker, MD, PhD Clinical geneticist and research fellow, genetic skin disorders, Head of DEB database
Paul van der Zwaag, MD, PhD Clinical geneticist, Researcher in cardiogenetics group
Cleo van Diemen, PhD Coordinator of Next-Generation Sequencing, Genome Analysis Facility, Development and Innovation section
Birgit Sikkema-Raddatz, PhD Head of Genome Diagnostics
Kristin Abbott, PhD Genome diagnostics
Helga Westers, PhD Teaching coordinator, Development and Innovation section
Klaas Kok, PhD Senior researcher, Development and Innovation section
Tom de Koning, MD, PhD Senior researcher, Inborn errors of metabolism
Eva van der Berg, PhD Associate professor, clinical cytogenetics
Hermien de Walle, PhD Senior epidemiologist, Head of EUROCAT
Monique van der Wijst, PhD

Assistant Professor in Functional Genomics research group

Postdocs
Alex Kurilshikov, PhD Postdoc Microbiome group
Joeri van der Velde, PhD Postdoc Swertz group  (Genomics Coordination Center)
Patrick Deelen, PhD Postdoc Franke group and Swertz group (Genomics Coordination Center)
Lennart Johansson, PhD Postdoc and project manager Swertz group (Genomics Coordination Center)
Pieter Neerincx, PhD Postdoc and project manager Swertz group (Genomics Coordination Center)
Mirjam Plantinga, PhD ELSI, ethicist
Visitors
Prof. Anneke Lucassen, PhD Holder of Johanna H. Bijtel Chair (2014-2016) and Director of the Clinical Ethics and Law Centre, University of Southampton, UK
Laatst gewijzigd:10 februari 2022 15:12