Group leader, Dr. Rob Stierum – Senior Scientist, European Registered Toxicologist- heads the systems toxicology and Big Data activities at TNO. Rob coordinates the bioinformatics for the Netherlands Toxicogenomics Centre (NTC) project. Further, he coordinates/is involved in several CEFIC projects to explore the value of data mining and toxicogenomics for industrial purposes, and ZonMW ASAT projects on integration of human disease mechanistic data for exploration of (in vitro) systems toxicology data. He also serves on the OECD Extended Advisory Group on Molecular Screening and Toxicogenomics.. He has ~50 publications in the areas of Carcinogenesis, DNA repair and genomics applied to toxicology.
Expertise: Systems Toxicology, Bioinformatics
Role in the project: Scientific contact person TNO for internal exposure. Coordinator WP5 ‘Omics, epigenetics and confirmatory in vitro analyses’. Contribution to WP1 state of the art. Contribution to WP7 Bioinformatics
E-mail: rob.stierum@tno.nl
Website: http://www.tno.nl/index.cfm?Taal=2
