Prof Peter-Bram ’t Hoen

Prof. Peter-Bram ‘t Hoen is dedicated to the advancement of personalised medicine approaches for neuromuscular diseases by integrative use of -omics and clinical data. ’t Hoen is the coordinator of the European SIMPATHIC project aiming for acceleration of drug repurposing for rare neurological neurometabolic and neuromuscular disorders. He is leading the Radboudumc program on neuromuscular disorders and has myotonic dystrophy as a disease focus. Since data from rare disease patient is scarce and fragmented, he dedicates a significant amount of time in making data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable and on developing infrastructure for the federated analysis of personal data, such as advocated by the Personal Health Train initiative. To this end, ‘t Hoen is directing the data analysis, integration and stewardship pillar within the Netherlands X-omics initiative; he is actively contributing to other data infrastructures such as HealthyData (workpackage leader “unlocking” data), HealthRI (national; tactical lead for the Nijmegen region), and international infrastructures such as European Rare Diseases Research Alliance (ERDERA), EURO-NMD registry, EATRIS and ELIXIR. He is FAIR and Open Science ambassador at Radboud University Medical Center and a member of the steering board of the Dutch Regieorgaan OpenScience.NL.