Prof. Gert-Jan B. van Ommen, PhD, (1947) is head of the Department of Human Genetics of Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) and founder of the Leiden Genome Technology Center (LGTC), a principal genomics facility in the Netherlands. He has as major research interests neuromuscular and neurodegenerative diseases (with a focus on Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, DMD, and Huntington Disease); development and application of genome research and diagnostic technology for disease study, diagnosis, therapy and prevention, including the societal aspects of genetic advances. He is past president of HUGO, the European Society of Human Genetics and the Dutch Society of Human Genetics and Editor-in-chief of the European Journal of Human Genetics. He is member of several National, EU and HUGO committees in the fields of Genetics, Innovative Health Care, Genomics, Bioinformatics, Biobanking, Ethics and IP issues. He is Director of the Center for Medical Systems Biology, CMSB, none of four Centers of Excellence of the Netherlands Genome Initiative. It is a joint initiative of Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden University, Free University Amsterdam and its Medical Center, Erasmus MC Rotterdam and TNO Leiden, aiming to improve diagnosis, therapy and prevention of common diseases and rare variants thereof.

Prof. G.J.B. van Ommen
Head, Dept. of Human Genetics, Center of Human and Clinical Genetics

Leiden University Medical Center
Director Center for Medical Systems Biology

Phone: +31-71-526 9401 / 9400
Fax: +31-71-526 8285
gjvo@lumc.nl
http://www.humgen.nl