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Onderzoek Department of Genetics Staff
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

Head of Department

Prof. Anke-Hilse Maitland-van der Zee
Head Department and Professor of Personalized Medicine

Principal investigators

Clinical geneticist and research fellow, genetic skin disorders, Head of DEB database
Clinical geneticist, Head of ELSI Program (Clinical Genetics, Epidemiology)
Coordinator of Next-Generation Sequencing, Genome Analysis Facility, Development and Innovation section
Professor of Functional Genomics
Professor of Systems Medicine
Clinical molecular geneticist, Genome Diagnostics
Adjunct Professor of Immunogenetics
Tom de Koning, MD, PhD
Senior researcher, Inborn errors of metabolism
Assistant Professor
Clinical geneticist
Genome Diagnostics
Head of Genomics Coordination Center and MOLGENIS team, Professor of BioInformatics - ‘Biomedical BiG Data Science’

Professor of Scientific Research in Medical Education

Teaching coordinator, Development and Innovation section
Lodewijk Sandkuil Professor of Human Genetics, Former Rector Magificus University of Groningen

Associate Professor in Single-cell Functional Biology

Prof. Sebo Withoff, PhD
Associate Professor of Complex Diseases

Professor of Human Genome and Exposome

Head of Clinic, Clinical geneticist, Researcher in cardiogenetics group

Postdocs

Genome diagnostics
Joeri van der Velde, PhD
Postdoc Swertz group  (Genomics Coordination Center)
Postdoc Franke group and Swertz group (Genomics Coordination Center)
Postdoc and project manager Swertz group (Genomics Coordination Center)
Postdoc and project manager Swertz group (Genomics Coordination Center)
Mirjam Plantinga, PhD
ELSI, ethicist

Emeritus faculty

Prof. Irene van Langen, MD, PhD

Professor of Clinical Genetics

Mieke Kerstjens, MD, PhD
Clinical geneticist
Klaas Kok, PhD
Senior researcher
Associate professor, clinical cytogenetics
Professor of Clinical Dysmorphology

Professor of Medical Translational Genetics, clinical geneticist

Clinical molecular geneticist
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