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Since June 1999, Rob Stierum (PhD) joined TNO Quality of
Life, Zeist,
the Netherlands. His task is the development of
toxicogenomics at TNO, towards applications and services
for industry. Also, he contributes to the development of
bioinformatics tools required to interpret the large
amount of data, resulting from genomics research.
He coordinates the bioinformatics activities for the
recently established Netherlands Toxicogenomics Centre
and toxicogenomics projects for NWO and STW. Further,
Rob coordinates a bioinformatics workpackage in the EU
6th framework funded Network of Excellence entitled
The
European Nutrigenomics Organisation. He obtained
funding in toxicology, toxicogenomics and bioinformatics
from the American Chemistry Council, The EU 6th
framework funded Integrated Project Carcinogenomics, the
UK Food Standards Agency, various pharmaceutical and
biotech companies and several intramural grants. In many
of these projects, genomics is applied to develop in
vitro toxicological models towards alternatives for
animal testing.
Before joining TNO, he was affiliated with the National
Institute on Aging (Baltimore, Maryland, USA), part of
National Institutes of Health (NIH). He studied
mitochondrial DNA repair mechanisms and was awarded the
NIH Fellows Award for Research Excellence for this work.
Rob is a board certified toxicologist and a member of
the Dutch Society for Toxicology.
He has ~35 publications in the areas of DNA damage and
repair and genomics applied to toxicology and
nutritional research. He is a guest lecturer on
bioinformatics and toxicogenomics at various
universities.
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