Welcome to the team Vasiliki!

Welcoming our Newest PhD Student Vasiliki!

We are excited to welcome our newest PhD student, Vasiliki, to the LMIB team! Vasiliki will collaborate with fellow PhD student Fatemeh to advance our understanding of congenital heart disease (CHD), a leading cause of non-infectious child mortality. Under the joint supervision of Alejandro and Jeroen Breckpot from UZ Leuven, she will use long-read whole genome sequencing to identify gene-phenotype associations and to better characterize complex genetic variation in CHD. Her work will be part of the DeepHeart Project, a multi-laboratory initiative dedicated to identifying specific genes involved in non-syndromic congenital heart disease (NS-CHD).