Dr Tessel Rigter is a researcher at the Department of Human Genetics, Amsterdam UMC. She completed her Ph.D. studies in "Translating the dynamics of genetics into health care practice" in 2014, at the VU University in Amsterdam. She is currently leading a project on direct-to-consumer genetic testing and is involved on several other projects studying stakeholder perspectives in innovation in genetics and (public) healthcare. She is also program leader of the Personalized Medicine program for the Amsterdam Public Health (APH) research institute, member of the board of the Dutch Asscociation for Community Genetics and Public Health Genomics (NACGG) and works part-time for the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM).