Sander Van Der Laan
Co-Founder at University of Virginia
Driebergen-Rijsenburg, Utrecht, Netherlands
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Top SchoolSander Van Der Laan is a Visiting Assistant Professor and translational genomicist with 11 years of experience integrating human genetics, epigenomics, histology and spatial transcriptomics to pinpoint causal genes and biomarkers for ischemic stroke and coronary artery disease. Based at UMC Utrecht and currently collaborating with the University of Virginia, he combines statistical genetics and AI-driven tissue morphology to map cell types and interactions in atherosclerotic lesions without new in vivo experiments. He has contributed to major international consortia (ISGC, GENIUS-CHD, GIANT, GLGC, GoDMC) and has a track record of identifying novel therapeutic candidates that can feed drug development pipelines. An advocate for Open Science, he has led initiatives to implement GitHub/GitLab and FAIR principles across UMCU, bridging reproducible research and clinical genomics. Colleagues describe him as a method-focused researcher who turns complex multi-omic datasets into actionable biological insight.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Biomedical Sciences - Biology of Disease, MSc Biomedical Sciences - Biology of Disease at Utrecht UniversityMasterclass Cardiology, Masterclass Cardiology at ICIN - Interuniversity Cardiology Institute of the Netherlands
Dutch, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (150)
variants10
ruby10
gene-expression10
genomics10
statistical-genetics10
genome10
r-package10
meta-analysis10
meta10
manhattan10
gwas10
qq10
bioinformatics10
r9
image-analysis9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
swvanderlaan/fastQTLToolKit
Apr 2016 - Mar 2018
Contributions:3 releases, 51 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 11 months
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
gwasvariant-analysesregional-analysesgene-analyseslocuszoom
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