Dr Lederer is Associate Professor and program coordinator at the CING Postgraduate School, and executive board member of the National Committee for Thalassemia and Other Hemoglobinopathies, the Human Variome Project, and the European Paediatric Translational Research Infrastructure (EPTRI). His department performs (i) clinical hematology and population-wide diagnostic services as national molecular reference laboratory and as HCP under ERN EuroBloodNet, including carrier screening, prenatal diagnostics, PGT-M and NIPT, (ii) translational research for the discovery of biomarkers and disease modifiers, (iii) genome editing and advanced therapy development for rare blood disorders, and (iv) development and coordination of patient registries, databases and epidemiology resources, including the world-leading ITHANET Portal and the ClinGen-recognized Hemoglobinopathy Variant Curation Expert Panel.
