Edwin Cuppen is the initiator and scientific director of the Hartwig Medical Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation that aims to improve cancer care by systematic whole genome sequencing analysis of tumours and that also maintains one of the world’s largest databases of cancer whole genome sequencing data enriched with real-world clinical patient data. After his undergraduate and PhD training at Wageningen University and Radboud University Nijmegen as a molecular geneticist, he held research and group leader positions at the Netherlands Cancer Institute, the Hubrecht Institute and the UMC Utrecht. His expertise is in genetics and cancer genomics.