Management Committee


Working Group Chairs

  • Genetic Association Studies (WG1)

    Ian Tomlinson, UK (chair)
    Dina Ruano, NL (vice-chair)

  • Functional Genomics (WG2)

    José Luis Goméz-Skarmeta, ES (chair)
    Richard Houlston, UK (vice-chair)

  • Next Generation Sequencing (WG3)

    Tom van Wezel, NL (chair)
    Claire Palles (vice-chair)

  • Statistical Modeling (WG4)

    Albert Tenesa, UK (chair)
    Ceres Fernández-Rozadilla, UK (vice-chair)


  • Financial rapporteurs:

    Clara Ruiz-Ponte, ES
    Jochen Hampe, DE

  • STSMs committee:

    Kari Hemminki, DE (chair)
    Andrea Gsur, AT
    Lauri Aaltonen, FI

  • Publications committee:

    Ian Tomlinson, UK
    Vanessa Petroni, MT

  • Web site committee:

    Sergi Castellví-Bel, ES
    Pavel Vodicka, CZ

COST is supported by the EU Framework Programme Horizon 2020