Edwin Cuppen

15:55 - 16:20 "Whole genome and transcriptome sequencing for cancer diagnostics and research."

Edwin Cuppen is initiator and scientific director of the Hartwig Medical Foundation (2015), a not-for-profit organisation that aims to improve cancer care by systematic whole genome sequencing-based diagnostics of tumors and that also maintains one of the world’s largest databases of cancer whole genome sequencing data enriched with transcriptomics and clinical patient data. Edwin is also professor of Human Genetics at the Center for Molecular Medicine of the University Medical Center in Utrecht. After his undergraduate and PhD training at Wageningen University and Radboud University Nijmegen as a molecular geneticist, he held research and group leader positions at the Netherlands Cancer Institute, the Hubrecht Institute and the UMC Utrecht. His expertise is in cancer genomics and functional genetics.