Elzo de Wit

Since my PhD I have been fascinated by the organization of DNA and chromatin inside the cell nucleus and how this relates to gene expression. I performed my PhD research in the lab of Bas van Steensel at the NKI. During this period I spent three months as a visiting scientist at Columbia University in New York.

Following my PhD I performed post-doctoral research in the lab of Wouter de Laat at the Hubrecht Institute, where I studied the 3D organization of the genome inside the nucleus. During this period I received a Veni career fellowship from NWO. I was also a co-founder of the biotech company Cergentis, where I served as head of bioinformatics for two days a week, in addition to my post-doctoral research.

In 2015 I joined the Netherlands Cancer Institute as a junior group leader where I lead a joined computational and experimental research group. My research has been awarded with an ERC Starting grant and an NWO Vidi career grant and more recently an ERC Consolidator grant.