Alain van Gool has strong passion in the application of biomarkers in translational medicine and personalized healthcare. His research through cross-functional teams has been focussing on translating knowledge of disease mechanisms into key molecular biomarkers that, together with non-molecular parameters, can be applied in a translational systems medicine approach to enable and improve personalized healthcare.
Alain’s professional background since 1991 is a mix of academia (ErasmusMC, ICRF, Radboud University Nijmegen), pharmaceutical industry (Organon, Schering-Plough, MSD), applied research institute (TNO), and medical school (Radboud UMC). He has been leading laboratories, expert teams and public-private consortia, many of which were focused on the discovery, development and implementation of translational biomarkers in a variety of therapeutic areas. His technical expertise resides most strongly in molecular profiling (genetics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, bioinformatics) and their applications in translational scientific research.
His current positions are head of Biomarkers in Personalized Healthcare at TNO (the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research), head of the Radboud Proteomics Centre of the Radboud University Medical Center, and professor Molecular Profiling at the Radboud University Nijmegen.
Alain van Gool, Radboudumc & TNO