BIOFIRE USER GROUP MEETING "THE NETHERLANDS"

Dr Willem Melchers is head of the Laboratory of Clinical Microbiology of the Department of Medical Microbiology at the University Medical Center Radboud in Nijmegen, NL. He is also associate professor in Molecular Microbiology. His research interests are in molecular microbiology, with a specific focus on the relationship between HPV infections and the development of cervical cancer. His interests include novel interdisciplinary approaches where molecular biology and genetics are tightly coupled with (bio)physical/informatics methods aimed at understanding the biological function at a molecular level.

Pierre-François Laterre, MD, is professor of medicine and the Head of the medical-surgical intensive care unit at Saint Luc University Hospital at the Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium.
He has dedicated most of his professional and scientific activity to the diagnosis, investigation and treatment of sepsis and especially its interaction with the coagulation cascade, inflammation and host response. Liver Failure and Transplantation, ARDS, Acute Renal Failure, Infectious Diseases are his topics of interest.