A.J. Gool

Alain van Gool is professor Personalized Healthcare at the Radboud university medical center, with a strong passion in the application of biomarkers in translational medicine and personalized healthcare. After his study (biochemistry, 1991) and PhD (molecular biology, 1996) Alain worked at a mix of academia, pharmaceutical industries (Organon, Schering-Plough, MSD), applied research institutes (CancerUK, TNO) and university medical centers in Europe, Asia and USA. He has been leading technology-based biomarker laboratories, cross-functional expert teams, therapeutic project teams and public-private consortia, many of which were focused on the discovery, development and implementation of translational biomarkers in a variety of therapeutic areas. His technical expertise resides most strongly in molecular profiling (various Omics approaches), analytical biomarker development and applications in translational scientific research.

Alain currently coordinates several biomarker/omics/data/AI programs as part of the department of Human Genetics including Lead PI of the Netherlands X-omics Initiative; Director of the Healthy Data Program;  Coordinator of the Sectorplan Data-driven innovation; Domain Leader MedTech & Data Sciences of the Radboudumc Research Institute for Medical Innovation, and Chair Biomarker Platform of EATRIS (the European infrastructure for Translational Medicine), thus contributing to the organisation and coordination of local, national and European technology infrastructures.