Dr. Ricky Kamps

Dr Rick Kamps is working as a Laboratory Manager in the Department of Translational Genomics and as a teacher supervising many Bachelor & Master students in the concept of Problem-Based Learning (PBL) in the Faculty of Health, Medicine, and Life Sciences (FHML), Maastricht University (the Netherlands) since 2010. Furthermore, he has more than 25 years of research experience in the diagnostics and biotechnology sector (e.g., Academic Hospitals in Aachen (Germany) and Maastricht (the Netherlands), and Philips Research in Eindhoven (the Netherlands). He has more than a decade of expertise in next-generation sequencing (NGS) across a wide range of applications (e.g., RNA/DNA sequencing and Single-Cell methods). At the end of 2020, he gained a PhD in Resolving the Role of Genetic Defects and the Mitochondrial DNA Copy Number in Mitochondrial Disease and Embryonic Development. He is also open to working or collaborating in Novel Scientific Challenges of Undiagnosed Rare Diseases (e.g., ERDERA or Undiagnosed Hackath