# Wouter de Laat

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## TL;DR

Genome biologist who chairs UMC Utrecht's Strategic Program Cancer, the umbrella for more than 800 cancer researchers in Utrecht.

## Summary

Wouter de Laat is Chair of the Strategic Program Cancer at UMC Utrecht, which coordinates cancer research across the UMC Utrecht Cancer Center and the Hubrecht Institute. He is a professor of biomedical genomics whose laboratory pioneered chromosome conformation capture (4C) methods to study three-dimensional genome organisation. His work links chromatin structure to gene regulation and disease.

## Fields

- Kind: Person
- Last checked: 2026-09-10
- Tags: leadership; basic science; cancer genomics
- Role: Chair, Strategic Program Cancer
- Specialisms: Genome organisation; Chromatin biology; Cancer genomics

## Sources

- Institution profile: https://research.umcutrecht.nl/strategic-programs/cancer/
- PubMed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=de+Laat+W%5BAuthor%5D

## Connected records

- institutions: [UMC Utrecht Cancer Center](https://onco.cc/institutions/umc-utrecht/)
- journals: [Cancer Cell](https://onco.cc/journals/cancer-cell/), [Cell](https://onco.cc/journals/cell/), [Nature Communications](https://onco.cc/journals/nature-communications/)

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