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

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Research groups

Future of Reproduction Utrecht (FoR U)

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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Seminal plasma induces receptivity-associated genes and pathways in endometrial epithelial organoids Jonna S. van den Berg, Marguerite Toros, Matthijs S. Abendroth, Yuwei Zhang, Brigitte Arends, Willem M.J.A. Verpoest, Frank J.M. Broekmans, Gaby S. Steba
Reproductive Biomedicine Online, 2025, vol. 51

Oocyte/zygote/embryo maturation arrest Annelore Van Der Kelen, Sophie Uyttebroeck, Stefanie Van de Voorde, Ludovica Picchetta, Ingrid Segers, Jelle Vlaeminck, Bart Johan H. Dequeker, Philippe Giron, Antonio Capalbo, Willem Verpoest, Frederik J. Hes, Pieter Verdyck, Alexander Gheldof
Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics, 2025, vol. 42, p.763–771

The interplay between mitochondrial DNA genotypes, female infertility, ovarian response, and mutagenesis in oocytes Annelore Van Der Kelen, Letizia Li Piani, Joke Mertens, Marius Regin, Edouard Couvreu De Deckersberg, Hilde Van De Velde, Karen Sermon, Herman Tournaye, Willem Verpoest, Frederik Jan Hes, Christophe Blockeel, Claudia Spits
Human Reproduction Open, 2025, vol. 2025

Add-ons in medically assisted reproduction Munevver Serdarogullari, Omar Ammar , Mina Mincheva, Claudia Massarotti, Zoya Ali, Sofia Makieva, Julia Uraji, Juan Fraire-Zamora, Kashish Sharma, Ioannis Sfontouris, Nick Macklon, Willem Verpoest, Manuela Perrotta, George Liperis
Human reproduction (Oxford, England), 2024, vol. 40, p.398-404

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

Genetics of infertility Willem Verpoest, Özlem Okutman, Annelore Van Der Kelen, Karen Sermon, Stéphane Viville
Human reproduction (Oxford, England), 2023, vol. 38, p.2289-2295

External positions

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