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University Medical Center Groningen

dr. T.G.J. (Terry) Derks

consultant pediatric metabolic diseases

Expertise

Inborn errors of metabolism, neonatal screening, therapy development
Hepatic glycogen storage diseases (GSD)
Medium-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency (MCADD)
Multiple acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency (MADD)

Other positions

  • Associate professor, since 2020
  • Principal Investigator, UMCG Research Institute ‘Mechanisms of Health, Ageing and Disease’ (MoHAD)
  • Board member and subnetwork coordinator European Reference Network for Hereditary Metabolic Diseases (MetabERN), since 2016
  • Member Advisory Committee on Neonatal Screening for Metabolic Diseases (ANS MZ), since 2021
  • Chair of the Dutch Society for Inborn Errors of Metabolism (ESN) , 2019-2025
  • Member SSIEM Advisory Council, 2019-2025
  • Initiator and chair GSD Value, since 2023
  • Initiator and chair International GSD Priority Setting Partnership, 2016-2020
  • Board member United for Metabolic Diseases (UMD), 2018-2019
  • Secretary Dutch Pediatric Association (NVK) section metabolic diseases, 2013-2017
Last modified:12 September 2025 07.41 a.m.

Contact information

Antonius Deusinglaan 1
9713 AV Groningen
The Netherlands

Beatrix Children's Hospital, section of metabolic diseases

Job title:
consultant pediatric metabolic diseases
+31-50-3616161 (UMCG):