Antoine van Kampen

Introduction

Antoine H.C. van Kampen has a background in chemometrics and did his PhD at the Laboratory for Analytical Chemistry (University of Nijmegen) where he worked on the development of global optimization techniques and their application in chemistry (e.g. protein structure determination from NMR, classification of ion chromatography methods). Part of this work was conducted at the laboratories for Analytical Chemistry and Artificial Intelligence at the University of New South Wales (Sydney). In 1997 he received the Clemens Rothaan price from the section "computertoepassingen" of the Royal Netherlands Chemical Society (KNCV) for his research. After a short post-doc period on the project 'Computer supported education' he moved to the Academic Medical Center (AMC) in Amsterdam. There he started bioinformatics research and initiated the Bioinformatics Laboratory of which he became head.

Research

The Bioinformatics Laboratory is engaged in different types of research and support projects The main research efforts comprise (a) the construction and analysis of genome-wide gene expression maps, (b) the reconstruction, analysis and interpretation of biological pathways and (c) experimental design and data analysis for DNA microarrays. The Bioinformatics Laboratory was one of the initiators of the AMC BioLims project to streamline genomics data-management and to link genomics to clinical data. Furthermore, the group has also been involved in the definition and implementation of the integration architecture that integrates hospital and genomics databases to enable clinical genomics projects. To facilitate and enable distributed and multi-disciplinary collaborations the Bioinformatics Laboratory aims to implement the e-bioscience paradigm as part of selected research support projects.