SIMPATHIC
Our Team
Prof. Dr. Peter-Bram ’t Hoen
Professor of Bioinformatics
Department of Medical BioSciences
Radboud university medical center
Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Project coordinator SIMPATHIC
Prof. Dr. Clara DM van Karnebeek
Pediatrician Metabolic Diseases & Biochemical Geneticist
Principal Investigator | Depts Pediatrics & Humans Genetics
Director Emma Center for Personalized Medicine
Director United for Metabolic Diseases
Depts Pediatrics & Humans Genetics
Amsterdam Medical Center,
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Project coordinator SIMPATHIC
Workgroup leader “Clinical trial design and execution”
Dr. Raymond G. Schipper
Research coordinator
Radboud university medical center
Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Project manager SIMPATHIC
Dr. Laura Benkemoun
Research Advisor for patient organizations
FFRD – Foundation For Rare Diseases (Fondation Maladies Rares)
Paris, France
Workgroup leader
“Patient empowerment, outcome measures, ethics”
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Alessandro Prigione
Professor of Pediatric Metabolic Medicine
Leader of Stem Cell Metabolism group
Department of General Pediatrics, Neonatology and
Pediatric Cardiology, University Hospital Düsseldorf
Heinrich –Heine University (HHU)
Düsseldorf, Germany
Workgroup leader
“Disease models and cellular and molecular profiling”
Dr. Ibrahim Boussaad
Department of Translational Neoroscience
Centre for Systems Biomedicine
University of Luxembourg
Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
Workgroup leader “Drug screening”
Dr. Martin de Kort
Senior Scientific Program Manager at EATRIS ERIC
Scientific Officer Drug Repurposing
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Workgroup leader “Exploitation and patient access models”