Henri Gerrit Brunner#
| Membership Number: | 3245 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2012 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1998 - present Professor and Head of department of Human Genetics, UMC St Radboud, the Netherlands
- 1988 - 1998 Staff member Clinical Geneticist, department of Human Genetics, UMC St Radboud, the Netherlands
- 1984 - 1988 Resident in Clinical Genetics, department of Human Genetics, UMC St Radboud, the Netherlands
Fields of Scholarship
- The elucidation of the genetic causes of intellectual disability
- Translating Medical Genetics into Genomic Medicine
- Phenomics
- Behavioural Genetics
- The elucidation of the genetic causes of birth defects
Honours and Awards
- 2016 King Faisal International Prize in Medicine (jointly with Joris Veltman)
- 2012 STANLEY DAVIDSON ENDOWED LECTURE, Royal College of Physicians Edinburgh, UK
- 2012 Ernst Klenck Lecture, Center for Molecular Medicine University Cologne, Germany
- 2009 Frank Greenberg memorial lectureship, Baylor college of medicine, Houston USA
- 1995 Ben ter Haar biannual award of the Clinical Genetics Society of the Netherlands for outstanding research in the field of clinical genetics
- 1994 the Dutch Organisation for Research of Neuromuscular diseases annual prize, for research on myotonic dystrophy
