Om Prof. dr. Frederik Hes
Prof. dr. Frederik Hes graduated from the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands in 1995. He obtained his doctorate in 2000 at the University of Utrecht on a study into Von Hippel-Lindau disease, a hereditary form of tumours. From 2000-2001 he was in training in internal medicine. From 2001-2005 he trained to become a clinical geneticist at the Leiden University Medical Centre. From 2015-2019 he was Chairman of the Association of Clinical Genetics in the Netherlands. His research interests are mainly in the fields of hereditary and family tumours; in particular to improve the detection and the periodic examination of people with hereditary tumour syndromes. Since 1 February 2019 Frederik Hes has been working at the UZ Brussel and is the Head of the Centre for Medical Genetics.