Contact

• Email: MyName@gmail.com 📧
• LinkedIn: My Profile
• GitHub: https://github.com/davidvi
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/vanijzen
• Publications: Google Scholar 🤓
• I live in San Francisco, USA 🇺🇸

About

I completed my MD/PhD at Leiden University. During my clinical rotations I focused on surgical pathology where I did my senior elective internships. For my graduate research I combined computational biology with molecular biology to study sarcomas. My research projects have included discovery of novel translocations using next generation sequencing and creating cell models for sarcomas. This research resulted in several high impact first author publications and I was awarded funding for my postdoctoral research at Stanford University. Next to my work as a researcher I am interested in entrepreneurship. I was runner-up in the Philips Innovation awards and I helped build Evidencehunt, a service that helps clinicians stay up to date on recent clinical literature.

Experience

Stanford University - February 2021 to Present - Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Pathology

• Generate and analyze PacBio long read sequencing data for somatic structural variants in sarcomas
• Generate and analyze 10X single cell sequencing data for rare soft tissue sarcomas, currently in press
• Analyze the cell of origin for leiomyosarcoma using methylation data
• Funded through a personal fellowship: Hanarth Fonds Fellowship
• Young Investigator 2022 by the CTOS

Deepdoc - April 2021 to Present - Co-founder

• Worked on a web platform that helps clinicians stay up-to-date on randomized controlled trials: Evidencehunt Developed a platform that helps Lareb, the Dutch Pharmacovigilance organization stay up to date on new publications.

Dana-Farber, Department of Computational Biology - September 2016 to December 2016 - PhD fellowship

• Developed a Python package to model gene regulatory networks based on expression data, published in the journal Bioinformatics
• Funded through a personal fellowship from: LUF International Study Fund

University of Oxford, Oxford, UK - July 2013 to September 2013 - Internship

• Research internship in the group of prof. Bass Hassan at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology
• Investigated the effect of mifamurtide on macrophages

Education

Leiden University Medical Center - September 2014 to February 2021 - MD/PhD

• Bioinformatics and machine learning analysis of soft tissue sarcomas gene expression data
• Developed cell line models for sarcomas
• Identification of novel gene fusions from transcriptome sequencing data
• During my clinical rotations I focused on surgical pathology where I did my senior elective internships

Leiden University Medical Center - September 2010 to September 2014 - Bachelor in Medicine

• Honors program (30 ECTS): pre-master biomedical science
• Student assistant for anatomy courses

Courses

Cambridge University - 2018 - An introduction to Machine Learning

• Machine learning data analysis course at Cambridge University

Meetings and Lectures

• CTOS annual meeting, speaker and awarded the Young Investigator Award, 2022
• European Society for Medical Oncology meeting, Milan, invited speaker on “In silico prediction of drug response in sarcoma”, 2022
• American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting, Chicago, Poster presentation, 2018
• Connective Tissue Oncology Society, Rome, Poster presentation, 2018
• Lecture Medical Genetics Center symposium, Leiden, Oral presentation, 2018
• Medical Genetics Center PhD workshop, Dortmund, Poster presentation, 2016
• Lecturer for the course: “BioSB RNAseq data analysis”, 2015 and 2016