Amsterdam Nieuw-West, North Holland, Netherlands
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
A Systems biology study to tailored treatment in chronic heart failure