Sander W van der Laan

PeerJ Reviewer

Summary

I studied at the University of Utrecht (the Netherlands) and earned my Bachelor's degree in Biology. Following that I earned my Master's degree in Biology of Disease at the University Medical Center Utrecht of the University of Utrecht. In the mean time I also worked at a biotechnology start-up Cavadis (Utrecht, the Netherlands) which was focused on cardiovascular biomarker diagnostics development based on large-scale 'omics'-data.
This gave further inspiration to pursuit a PhD in cardiovascular genomics which you can find here https://www.narcis.nl/publication/RecordID/oai:dspace.library.uu.nl:1874%2F346682 and here https://reader.ogc.nl/aa46269e-5db9-4a7b-b70a-a74a97aa3c41.epub/.

Bioinformatics Cardiology Computational Biology Data Science Genetics Genomics Histology Medical Genetics Molecular Biology Neurology Translational Medicine

Work details

Junior PostDoc

University Medical Center Utrecht

July 2016

Laboratory of Experimental Cardiology

My research interests include the fine-mapping of stroke and cardiovascular disease risk loci through functional genomics using microarray and sequencing technologies, high-throughput imaging, and causal inference by means of Mendelian randomisation. I am currently working on functional genomics of cardiovascular risk loci, quantitative trait loci analyses in circulating cells and atherosclerotic tissues, high-through imaging of histological slides, genome-wide association studies of putative biomarkers, and epigenetic analyses of cardiovascular disease.

Websites

Van der Laan & Science

PeerJ Contributions

Reviewed 1

Signed reviews submitted for articles published in PeerJ Note that some articles may not have the review itself made public unless authors have made them open as well.

January 17, 2018

Expression status and clinical significance of lncRNA APPAT in the progression of atherosclerosis

Fanming Meng, Jie Yan, Qiongshan Ma, Yunjuan Jiao, Luyang Han, Jing Xu, Fan Yang, Junwen Liu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4246 PubMed 29372117