prof. Bruce Poppe (MD, PhD)
CRIG member
Clinical geneticist and Head of the department - Center for Medical Genetics (UZ Gent)
Head of the department – Center for Rare Diseases (UZ Gent)
Full professor (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, UGent)
Teamleader societal outreach – Department of Biomolecular Medicine (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, UGent)
Research focus
- the molecular cytogenetics of haematological malignancies – identification tumour suppressor genes and oncogenes, dissection of deregulated cellular pathways involved in malignant transformation
- prognostic, diagnostic and therapeutic relevance of acquired genetic defects in malignancies
- counselling, molecular genetic analysis and management of familial and hereditary cancer
- the molecular genetics of hereditary breast and ovarian cancer: role of BRCA1, BRCA2 and other (candidate) tumour suppressor genes
- psychological issues in presymptomatic testing for a hereditary predisposition to cancer
Biography
- 1997 : MD (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, UGent)
- 1998 – 2002 : Aspirant of the Fund for Scientific Research of Flanders
- 2005 : PhD (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, UGent)
- 2005 : Clinical geneticist (UZ Gent, AZ St-Jan Brugge, AZ Delta, AZ Sint-Lucas Gent, AZ Maria Middelares Gent)
- 2006 – 2016 : Senior Clinical Investigator of the Fund for Scientific Research of Flanders
- 2006 : Certification in Internal Medicine
- 2009 - present : Professor in the rank of senior lecturer (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, UGent)
- 2010 – 2015 : Advisor to ‘DG1 Organisatie Gezondheidszorgvoorzieningen’, Federal Public Service of Health, Food Chain Safety and Environment
- 2010 – present : Member of the management committee of the ‘Fund Rare Diseases and Orphan Drugs’, King Baudoin Foundation
- 2014 : President of the Guideline Development group: KCE projects 220, 242, 243, 236
- 2014 – present : Head of the department, Center for Rare Diseases (UZ Gent)
- 2016 - present : Head of the department Center for Medical Genetics (UZ Gent)
- 2016 : Founding member of the Flemish Network for Rare Diseases
- 2017 : Certification in Clinical Genetics
- 2018 : National coordinator ERN GENTURIS
Contact & links
- Lab address: Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Department of Biomolecular Medicine, campus UZ Gent, C. Heymanslaan 10, (entrance 34 (Medical Research Building)), 9000 Gent
- B. Poppe & zijn team
- B. Poppe & Het Centrum Medische Genetica Gent
- B. Poppe & Het College voor Genetica en Zeldzame Ziekten
- Hereditary Breast Cancer