Researchers Willem Verpoest

Willem Verpoest

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Biography

Willem Verpoest graduated at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium, as Obstetrician-Gynaecologist in 2003 and qualified as EBCOG subspecialist in reproductive medicine in 2007 at Vrije Universiteit Brussel. In 2010 he obtained a PhD in Medical Sciences entitled ‘The Clinical Reproductive Outcome of Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis’. He is currently full professor at the Utrecht University Medical Centre at Utrecht University. Previously he was professor and medical co-director at Brussels IVF fertility centre and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. His areas of expertise are PGT, reproductive genetics and implantation. He is currently president of the Belgian Society for Reproductive Medicine (BSRM) and board member of the Female Reproductive Genetics Initiative (FeRGI).

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Contact

w.m.j.verpoest@umcutrecht.nl

Pure profile

Research groups

FUTURA Utrecht - Future Health and Reproduction Academy Utrecht

Research aim

Our mission is to study the origin of life and the factors that affect its development from embryo to adult.

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Recent publications

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A heatmap for expected cumulative live birth rate in preimplantation genetic testing for monogenic disorders and chromosomal structural rearrangements Kathelijn Keymolen, Wilfried Cools, Anick De Vos, Laura Pölsler, Michel De Vos, Christophe Blockeel, Elia Fernandez-Gallardo, Martine De Rycke, Veerle Berckmoes, Pieter Verdyck, Frederik Jan Hes, Willem Verpoest
Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics, 2024, vol. 41, p.1907-1915

Clinical experience of preimplantation genetic testing Martine De Rycke, Veerle Berckmoes, Anick De Vos, Stefanie Van De Voorde, Pieter Verdyck, Willem Verpoest, Kathelijn Keymolen
Reproduction, 2020, vol. 160, p.A45-A58

Multiple vitrification-warming and biopsy procedures on human embryos Anick De Vos, Lisbet Van Landuyt, Martine De Rycke, Pieter Verdyck, Greta Verheyen, Andrea Buysse, Florence Belva, Kathelijn Keymolen, Herman Tournaye, Willem Verpoest
Human reproduction (Oxford, England), 2020, vol. 35, p.2488-2496

Preimplantation genetic testing with HLA matching M De Rycke, A De Vos, F Belva, V Berckmoes, M Bonduelle, A Buysse, K Keymolen, I Liebaers, J Nekkebroeck, P Verdyck, W Verpoest
Journal of Human Genetics, 2020, vol. 65, p.445-454

The proliferative phase endometrium in IVF/ICSI S Mackens, S Santos-Ribeiro, A Racca, D Daneels, A Koch, W Essahib, W Verpoest, C Bourgain, I Van Riet, H Tournaye, J J Brosens, Y H Lee, C Blockeel, H Van de Velde
Human reproduction (Oxford, England), 2020, vol. 35, p.130-144

External positions

Voorzitter - Organiseren scientific meetings, voorzitten bestuursvergaderingen, content aanleveren nieuwsbrief - Belgian Society for Reproductive Medicine