Group leader, Prof. Dr. Bart Janssen is working with ServiceXS since 2007. Moreover, he has an honorary professorship with the Ruprecht-Karls University Heidelberg. He is a molecular geneticist with a special interest in positional cloning and molecular diagnostics. He studied biology in Leiden and obtained his PhD in Rotterdam. Prof. Janssen has been successfully involved in the identification of a significant number of genes relevant to human kidney disease: TSC1 and TSC2 causing tuberous sclerosis, PKD1 causing autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease, and CNDP1 involved in diabetic nephropathy. From 1996 to 2007 he was the head of the molecular diagnostics laboratory at the Institute of Human Genetics in Heidelberg. He is now Innovation and Quality Manager at ServiceXS and network coordinator of the European project FAST-SEQ. His work resulted in 58 publications and several patents.
Expertise: Gene identification, molecular diagnostics, high throughput genomics analyses
Role in the project: Team leader of the ServiceXS HEALS team contributing to WP5 and WP19
E-mail: b.janssen@servicexs.com
Websites: http://www.servicexs.com/
