Joris R. Vermeesch, PhD Ir, is professor of molecular cytogenetics and genome research, and staff member of the Center for Human Genetics Leuven, Belgium, and scientific director of the genomic core facility at KU Leuven. He is president-elect of PGDIS (Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis International Society) and board member of ISPD (International Society of Prenatal Diagnosis).

The laboratory develops and translates novel genomics methods in preimplantation, prenatal, and postnatal diagnosis, and more recently, cancer screening. They pioneered array CGH, single-cell arrays, massive parallel short- and long-read sequencing, and cell-free DNA analysis. Those developments have led to new approaches for rare-disease testing, structural PGT, NIPS, and cancer detection. Professor Vermeesch is leading the Belgian Genome Biobanking project and participating in the 1+MG. He has published over 400 publications with a WoS h-index of 64 and GS h-index of 84.