Willem H. Ouwehand
Dutch haematologist
Willem Hendrik Ouwehand (born August 1953) is a Dutch-born haematologist and geneticist. He is Emeritus Professor of Experimental Haematology at the University of Cambridge. His research has focused on platelet biology, blood cell genetics, transfusion medicine and clinical genomics.
Career
Ouwehand studied medicine in the Netherlands before joining the University of Cambridge and NHS Blood and Transplant in 1989. He was promoted to Reader in 2004 and Professor in 2010. In 2004 Ouwehand founded the Bloodomics Consortium, an international collaboration investigating the genetic basis of blood cell formation and platelet biology. He subsequently became a founding member of the NIHR BioResource and served as Director of its Rare Diseases programme. Under his leadership, the programme undertook a pilot study that informed the UK's 100,000 Genomes Project, demonstrating the clinical utility of whole-genome sequencing for patients with rare diseases. Among the researchers who have worked with Ouwehand is Nicole Soranzo, who later became known for her work in human genetics.
Ouwehand chairs the Blood Transfusion Genomics Consortium, an international collaboration developing genomic methods for blood group typing and precision transfusion medicine.
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