Willem H. Ouwehand MD, PhD

Professor Willem Ouwehand is embedded in the Department of Haematology at the University of Cambridge and collaborates with the Wellcome Sanger Institute (WTSI) and the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI). The group’s program of research in megakaryocyte and platelet biology and genomics is one of the largest in Europe and focuses primarily on the relationship between sequence variation in genes transcribed in megakaryocytes and the volume, count, and function of platelets. A multidisciplinary team of 60 with skills in molecular biology, protein biochemistry, antibody engineering, genomics, and bioinformatics work together on different aspects of human platelets.