Robert ten Hove

Contribute to (inter)national knowledge and expertise building within the field of global health security and CBRN. Collaborating with international partners to develop course material, workshops, online tools, as well as providing trainings. Setting up monitoring network for Avian Influenza Virus in the wild.

All-rounder for data collection, analysis and visualization. Support breeding, agronomy, research & sales on experimental setup, interpretation, statistics and coding.

Coordination of the blood proficiency testing scheme for external quality assessment of European Blood Establishments. Audit and advise blood establishments and help to implement and/or improve their Quality Management System.

Expanding molecular diagnostic laboratory, implementing assays, performing research, training, advice on quality control and marketing.

Integrated Pest Management in horticulture. Setting up production facility for biological pest control. Isolation, characterization and up-scaling of Trichoderma. Setting up field trials.

Responsible for clinical molecular diagnostic laboratory: development, validation and quality assurance of multiplex real-time PCR assays for the detection of infectious diseases.

Performing routine bacterial analyses, validation- and stability testing according to GMP and GLP guidelines.

Outbreak response of sleeping sickness (trypanosomiasis). (Congo-Brazzaville) Tuberculosis programs: Setting up tuberculosis diagnostics in health clinics and assisting a quality reference in the hospital. My activities included training of staff on DOTS tuberculosis control strategy and on proper lab procedures for the detection of tuberculosis. Setting up a quality control system for both malaria and tuberculosis microscopy. (Uzbekistan, Ingushetia/Chechnya, Afghanistan)

Diagnostics on plant pathogenic organisms using PCR-based detection methods and maintenance of the entomology collection.

Molecular genetics on the mechanism of facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD). (Nature Genetics, 2003;35(4):315-317).

Development of a standardized inoculation protocol for whole plant and detached leaf bioassays with Podosphaera mildew on rose.

Development and assessment of new diagnostic approach for routine clinical diagnostics and epidemiology of intestinal parasites. Defense of the dissertation was on 1st of October 2009.

Subjects covered: Vector-control; Parasitology, Pathology; TB care; HIV/AIDS; Health care in emergency, and more.

Theses in plant virology (Wageningen Agricultural University, Department of Virology; University of Cape Town, Microbiology Department) and human genetics (Leiden UMC, Department of human genetics).