Sander Van Der Laan
Visiting Assistant Professor at UMC Utrecht
Driebergen-Rijsenburg, Utrecht, Netherlands
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Top SchoolDr. Sander Van Der Laan is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia and an Assistant Professor at UMC Utrecht, where he applies genetics and genomics to cardiovascular disease. He studies the genetic and epigenetic causes of carotid and coronary atherosclerosis underlying ischemic stroke and CAD, integrating genomics with histology to identify causal genes, proteins, networks, and biomarkers. His work aims to accelerate drug development by translating complex data into viable targets, using a human-centered approach that has yielded new candidate biomarkers without additional in vivo experiments. He contributes to international consortia including the International Stroke Genetics Consortium and GENIUS-CHD, GIANT, GLGC, and GoDMC. He serves as a Review Editor for Frontiers in Cardiovascular Epidemiology and Prevention and Frontiers in Human Genomics. An active Open Science advocate, he formerly chaired the Open Science Community Utrecht and continues to drive GitHub/GitLab adoption and FAIR-principles implementation across UMC Utrecht.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, MSc at Utrecht UniversityMasterclass, Masterclass at ICIN - Interuniversity Cardiology Institute of the Netherlands
Dutch, English
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Github Skills (200)
hugo-theme10
ruby10
gene-expression10
genomics10
microscopy10
linux10
genome10
r-package10
netlify10
meta-analysis10
manhattan10
homebrew10
gwas10
qq10
bioinformatics10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
swvanderlaan/GWASToolKit
Apr 2016 - Oct 2022
A collection of scripts to run GWAS, regional, gene-oriented, or per-variant analyses.
Contributions:3 releases, 184 commits, 15 PRs in 6 years 7 months
analysesgenomicsregionalbioinformaticsgene
swvanderlaan/fastQTLToolKit
Apr 2016 - Mar 2018
Contributions:3 releases, 51 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 11 months
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