Fransiska Malfait
- Associate Professor
- Head of the Connective tissue - Malfait lab
Contact
Campus UZ, C. Heymanslaan 10, K5 (entrance 81), 9000 Ghent
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Personalia
Biography
- 2012 - present: Head of Clinic - Center for Medical Genetics Ghent
- 2012 - present: Professor - Ghent University
- 2012 - present: Clinical Geneticist - Ghent University Hospital
- 2009 - 2012: Postdoc - Ghent University Hospital
- 2007: PhD - Ghent University
- 2000: Master Medicine - Ghent University
Member of
- Center of Medical Genetics Ghent
- EDS Society and International EDS Consortium
- European Reference Network for Rare and Complex Connective Tissue and Musculoskeletal Diseases (ERN ReCONNET)
- European Reference Network for Rare Vascular Diseases (VASCERN)
Research tracks
Expertise
- Hereditary connective tissue disorders
- Medical genomics
- Skeletal displasia
- Osteogenesis imperfecta
- Proteoglycans
- Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome
- Collagen