Organisation
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Director
Panagiotis Baliakas is a specialist in hematology and clinical genetics working as a senior consultant at the department of clinical genetics at Uppsala University Hospital and a research group leader at Uppsala University. His research interest is hematological malignancies with the main focus being hereditary hematologic cancer. Read more about Panagiotis Baliakas’ research.
Head of unit
Malin Melin, PhD, is Head of unit and manages overall operations at Clinical Genomics Uppsala. Malin has an MSc in biotechnology, a PhD in clinical molecular genetics and extensive experience in genomic methods, bioinformatics and project management. A list of publications that Malin has contributed to can be found in the Pubmed database.
Email: malin.melin@scilifelab.uu.se
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Photo: David Naylor
Solid tumors
Lotte Moens, PhD, is the work package leader for solid tumors. Lotte is a clinical molecular biologist in pathology at the department of Clinical Pathology at Uppsala University Hospital. Lotte has a background in toxicogenomics, multifactorial diseases and molecular pathology and has extensive experience in genomic methods development. A list of publications that Lotte has contributed to can be found in the Pubmed database.
Email: lotte.moens@igp.uu.se
Hematology
Tatjana Pandzic and Peter Hollander jointly lead the hematology work package at Clinical Genomics Uppsala.
Tatjana Pandzic is a clinical laboratory geneticist and researcher at the department of Clinical Genetics at Uppsala University Hospital. Read more about Tatjana Pandzic’s research.
Email: tatjana.pandzic@igp.uu.se
Peter Hollander is a specialist in hematopathology and researcher at the department of Clinical Pathology at Uppsala University Hospital. Read more about Peter Hollander’s research.
Email: peter.hollander@igp.uu.se
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Inherited diseases
Joakim Klar, PhD in Medical Genetics, leads the work package on inherited diseases at Clinical Genomics Uppsala. His work focuses on the clinical implementation of advanced genomic technologies to improve the diagnosis of inherited disorders. Read more about Joakim Klar’s work in translational genomics and clinical method development.
Email: joakim.klar@igp.uu.se
Microbiology
Associate professor René Kaden is a microbiologist at the Clinical Microbiology department at Uppsala University Hospital and leads the work package for Microbiology. His research focuses on molecular epidemiology, evolution and taxonomy of microorganisms. Read more about René Kaden’s scientific work.
Email: rene.kaden@akademiska.se
Photo: Heike Kaden
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Bioinformatics
Jonas Almlöf, PhD, is a bioinfomatician and co-leader for the bioinformatics work package.
Jonas has a background in computer science and genetics association studies as well as protein structure simulations. Since joining the facility, Jonas has been working on developing bioinformatic applications mainly for Solid tumors with the Hydra genetics pipeline framework. A list of publications that Jonas has contributed to can be found in the Pubmed database.
Email: jonas.almlof@igp.uu.se
Patrik Smeds, is a bioinfomatician and co-leader for the bioinformatics work package.
Patrik has a background in computer science and has worked in both the private sector and academia. Since joining the facility, Patrik has focused on developing automated workflows, the Hydra genetic pipeline framework, and projects to visualize data for the geneticists. A list of the publications Patrik has contributed to is available in the PubMed database.
Email: patrik.smeds@igp.uu.se
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