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Dr. Elfride De Baere, MD PhD

Ghent University and Ghent University Hospital

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Ghent University and Ghent University Hospital

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Elfride De Baere (°1971) obtained her M.D. and Ph.D. degree in 1996 and 2002 respectively. She is Senior Full Professor at Ghent University, Senior Clinical Investigator of the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) and Head of Lab at the CMGG at the Ghent University Hospital. She leads the Ophthalmic and Developmental Genetics Lab of Ghent University, which is part of a Belgian reference center for the genomics of a wide variety of inherited eye disorders such as inherited retinal diseases (IRD). She is partner of several international consortia such as the European Retinal Disease Consortium (ERDC), European Reference Network for Rare Eye Diseases (ERN-EYE), and coordinator of several concerted research programs such as ‘StarT: European Training Network to Diagnose, Understand and Treat Stargardt Disease’ (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2018, 2018-2022), ‘Precision medicine in inherited blindness using integrated omics in human and animal models (UGent, 2020-2025), 'Solve-RET: Solving missing heritability in inherited retinal diseases using integrated omics and gene editing in human cellular and animal models' (EJP RD 2020-2023), ‘NucleUZ: precision medicine in rare and acquired diseases’ (Ghent University Hospital) (2018-2021). She is Associate Editor of Clinical Genetics, Communicating Editor of Human Mutation, and on the editorial board of Nature Scientific Reports and Genes. She serves on the advisory boards of many international funding bodies and research councils. She has published >165 research papers, the majority in the field of Genetics, Ophthalmology and Multidisciplinary Sciences, her H-index is 49 (Google Scholar). She is president of the College of Genetics in Belgium. In 2012 she was awarded the Inbev-Baillet Latour Prize for Clinical Research.