Prof. Björn Menten
- Associate Professor
- Head of the Genome Research lab
- Teamleader Education
Contact
Campus UZ, C. Heymanslaan 10, MRB1 (entrance 34), 9000 Ghent
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Personalia
Biography
- 2005 - present: Professor - Ghent University
- 2002: Master Bio-engineering - Ghent University
Member of
- Center for Medical Genetics Ghent
- Cancer Research Institute Ghent
- Bioinformatics Institute Ghent from nucleotides to networks
- Belgian Society for Human Genetics
- RARE-MED consortium
Research tracks
Expertise
- Genomics
- Applied bio-informatics
- Molecular karyotyping
- Prenatal genetic testing
- Preimplantation genetic testing
- Whole genome sequencing
- Long read sequencing
Publications
Key publications
- Application of an Ultrasensitive NGS-Based Blood Test for the Diagnosis of Early-Stage Lung Cancer: Sensitivity, a Hurdle Still Difficult to Overcome. (2022) Cancers.
- Shallow whole-genome sequencing: a useful, easy to apply molecular technique for CNA detection on FFPE tumor tissue-a glioma-driven study. (2022) Virchows Archives.
- The feasibility of using liquid biopsies as a complementary assay for copy number aberration profiling in routinely collected paediatric cancer patient samples. (2022) European Journal of Cancer.
- Small-scale manufacturing of neoantigen-encoding messenger RNA for early-phase clinical trials. (2022) Cytotherapy.
- Myxoid pleomorphic liposarcoma-a clinicopathologic, immunohistochemical, molecular genetic and epigenetic study of 12 cases, suggesting a possible relationship with conventional pleomorphic liposarcoma. (2021) Modern Pathology.