Wouter Ouwerkerk

Research Fellow at Amsterdam UMC and National Heart Centre Singapore

Amsterdam Nieuw-West, North Holland, Netherlands

About

Wouter Ouwerkerk is a researcher trained in biostatistics, bioinformatics, and genetic epidemiology. He has co-authored over 100 publications across cardiology, dermatology, and cancer immunology, integrating multi-omics and systems biology approaches to advance personalized medicine. After earning his PhD under Prof. Dr. A.H. Zwinderman and Prof. Dr. A.A. Voors, he joined the Department of Dermatology (Prof. Dr. R.M. Luiten) at the Amsterdam UMC. He got recognized internationally, when he was invited by Prof. Dr. C.S.P. Lam to join the National Heart Centre Singapore as Senior Researcher, continuing his research on heart failure. He continues working in the field of dermatology where he focusses on high-dimensional data anal- yses in skin physiology combining different diseases: melanoma, non-melanoma skin cancer, vitiligo, (atomic/hand) dermatitis, psoriasis. Wouter has received multiple competitive awards, including grants from the Cancer Center Amster- dam (2023), Melanoma Research Alliance (2020), and the AI&II (2018), and has been repeatedly invited as expert to the transatlantic heart failure biomarker working group in Cannes

Experience

  • Owner at Ouwerkerk Analytics
    Oct 2024 - Present · 1 yr 10 mos

  • Research Fellow at National Heart Centre Singapore
    Oct 2018 - Present · 7 yrs 10 mos

  • AMC - Academisch Medisch Centrum (14 yrs 1 mo)
    • Post-Doctoral researcher Dermatology
      Sep 2016 - Present · 9 yrs 11 mos

    • Post-Doctoral researcher Clinical Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics
      Sep 2017 - Oct 2018 · 1 yr 2 mos

    • PhD Student Clinical Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics
      Jul 2012 - Sep 2017 · 5 yrs 3 mos

      A Systems biology study to tailored treatment in chronic heart failure

  • Datamanager at Factory-CRO for Medical Devices
    Jan 2010 - Jul 2012 · 2 yrs 7 mos

  • Datamanager at Jan van Breemen Instituut
    2004 - 2008 · 4 yrs