Medical Molecular Microbiologist
Dr. E. C.J. (Eric) Claas, PhD
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Introduction
I am a medical molecular microbiologist (MMM) and implement technological advancements by molecular methods into diagnostic microbiology.
After my PhD at the VU Amsterdam in 1991, I worked at the National Influenza Centre at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam from 1990-1998, where my group identified the first human influenza A/H5N1 (bird-flu) infection (https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(97)11212-0).
From 1998 on I have been involved in setting up the molecular diagnostics lab, which has evolved into a state-of-the-art laboratory for virology, bacteriology, parasitology, and mycology. Nowadays, together with my two MMM colleagues Els Wessels and Stefan Boers, we focus on new developments in syndromic testing and laboratory automation and also have implemented next generation sequencing as a routine diagnostic tool for targeted and untargeted metagenomic detection of pathogens, but also for bacterial typing and analysis of antimicrobial resistance, virulence and surveillance.
After my PhD at the VU Amsterdam in 1991, I worked at the National Influenza Centre at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam from 1990-1998, where my group identified the first human influenza A/H5N1 (bird-flu) infection (https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(97)11212-0).
From 1998 on I have been involved in setting up the molecular diagnostics lab, which has evolved into a state-of-the-art laboratory for virology, bacteriology, parasitology, and mycology. Nowadays, together with my two MMM colleagues Els Wessels and Stefan Boers, we focus on new developments in syndromic testing and laboratory automation and also have implemented next generation sequencing as a routine diagnostic tool for targeted and untargeted metagenomic detection of pathogens, but also for bacterial typing and analysis of antimicrobial resistance, virulence and surveillance.
