Cuppen, Edwin Prof. dr.

General info

Street / P.O. Box

Uppsalalan 8

Zip code

3584 CT

City

Utrecht

Country

Nederland

E-mail

e.cuppen@removethis.hubrecht.eu

Phone number(s)

+31 (0)30-2121969

Website(s)

http://www.hubrecht.eu/researc...

http://www.umcutrecht.nl/genet...

Principal Research

In 2002 Edwin Cuppen became a principle investigator at the Hubrecht Institute and in 2007 he was appointed professor of Genome Biology at the Biology department of the Utrecht University. In 2009 he was appointed professor of Human Genetics and head of the research section of the Medical Genetics department of the University Medical Center Utrecht, while continuing his work at the Hubrecht Institute.

His area of expertise is in genomics and genetics and his scientific interests are in functional and personal genomics. In 2005, Edwin Cuppen was awarded a prestigious European Young Investigators Award for his work on naturally occurring and induced genetic variation in the laboratory rat. He was one of the first to generate gene knockout models in the rat and recently showed the widespread effect of copy number variation on gene expression levels.

More Information

You can find a CV of Edwin Cuppen here.

Projects involved (as projectleader)

• Exploring the RNA world

Projects involved (as participant)

• Prediction of gene function and regulation

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