Speakers

Han Brunner is the former Head of the Institute of Human Genetics at Nijmegen Radboudumc, and at Maastricht Medical Center, in the Netherlands.

Positions

• Han promotes rapid implementation of genomic technologies in Medicine, which is advantageous for diagnosing patients, and helping families.
• Genomic approaches and can make the care for people with rare diseases more effective.
• His scientific work has shown that new mutations are the main cause of intellectual disability, which led to the acceptance of exome sequencing as a first-tier test in neurodevelopmental disorders.
• Recent work from his group established that heterozygote selection is relevant to the overall landscape of autosomal recessive diseases in European populations.

Areas of special interest

• Clinical Genomics and Rare Disease Diagnosis
• Neurodevelopmental Genetics and Intellectual Disability
• Population Genetics and Recessive Inheritance