Marc Abramowicz

Dr Marc Abramowicz, MD PhD, is a clinical geneticist and university professor of genetic and genomic medicine, who has been active in the field of human genomics for three decades, with a busy clinical tract dealing with patients affected with genetic diseases, and a scientific track record in genomic research. Dr Abramowicz has examined thousands of patients with suspected or demonstrated rare diseases, hereditary cancer, and/or congenital disorders, and their families, providing molecular diagnoses, therapeutic options, and genetic counseling. He is currently a full professor of genetic medicine at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and at the Université de Genève (UNIGE) and heads the division of genetic medicine at the Geneva University Hospitals (HUG).

Over the last ten years Dr Abramowicz has pursued an interest in the implementation of genomic medicine for global health. He has been particularly interested in promoting the worldwide exchange of data in the benefit of patients (in the appropriate legal and ethical frame), and in facilitating access of everyone to genomic medicine. He is a founding member of the Global Genomic Medicine Consortium (G2MC). Marc and his team have an active scientific collaboration with the Vietnam National University and ND-2 hospital aiming at genomic medicine implementation in Vietnam.