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Professor Joep P.M. Geraedts was born in 1948. He studied general biology at the Catholic University in Nijmegen and received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in 1969 and 1972 respectively. In 1975 he obtained a PhD from the University of Leiden on the thesis ‘Constitutive heterochromatin as a marker for chromosomal studies in human somatic cells and spermatozoa’. In 1985 he was registered as SMBWO investigator human genetics. From 1972 until 1975 he held a position as junior scientist at the Academic Hospital Leiden. From 1975 until 1982 he was senior scientist (assistant professor) at the University of Leiden. In October 1982 he was appointed full professor of genetics and Cell Biology at Maastricht University. Since 1983 he is also director of the Foundation for Clinical Genetics in Maastricht. In 2003 this centre was integrated and became a department of the University Hospital. Joep Geraedts is head of this department, which has the only PGD license in the Netherlands.
Joep Geraedts has served as chairman of the Dutch Society of Human Genetics and at the moment he is chairman of the Society of Dutch Clinical Genetics Centres.
At the European level he is actively involved in the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology. For many years he has been co-ordinator of the Special Interest Group Reproductive Genetics and steering member of the ESHRE PGD Consortium. Since 2005 he is chairman elect of ESHRE.
Joep Geraedts is author, co-author or editor of more than 160 PubMed articles, 15 books and more than 50 chapters in books. Furthermore he is associate editor of Human Reproduction Update and on the advisory and editorial boards of various societies and scientific journals. His research is aimed at various aspects of clinical and reproductive genetics.
He has been leader of the division Developmental Biology since its start in 1984.
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