Johan T. Den Dunnen PhD

Johan T den Dunnen, Human & Clinical Genetics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, studied biology at the Catholic University Nijmegen (Nederland). In the same university he received his PhD in Molecular Biology for his work on the "Evolution of eye-lens crystallin genes" (promoter Prof.dr. JGG Schoenmakers). After his PhD he changed to the department of Human Genetics (head Prof.dr. PL Pearson), Leiden University, and became involved in the search for the gene causing Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy.