Pieter Mestdagh

Pieter MESTDAGH

Full Professor

OncoRNAlab, Department for Biomolecular Medicine, Ghent University, Belgium

Pieter Mestdagh is a full professor at Ghent University and group leader at the Cancer Research Institute Ghent (CRIG) OncoRNALab. His research aims to exploit RNA for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. The various research lines converge on studying the role of non-coding RNA in cancer and on the utility of extracellular RNA in liquid biopsies. Through a combination of high-throughput (functional) genomics technologies and bio-informatics tools, we seek to answer various fundamental and translational research questions. The lab has expertise in gene expression data analysis and developed several research tools, databases and data analysis methods dedicated to the study of non-coding RNAs and cell free RNAs. Pieter Mestdagh is co-founder of various international consortia related to the study of RNAs including the miRNA Quality Control consortium (miRQC), the extracellular vesicles Quality Control study (evQC), the extracellular RNA Quality Control study (exRNAQC) and the RNA-Atlas consortium.