Prof. Dr. Ron van Schaik, PhD is a registered European specialist Laboratory medicine (2003) and a Full Professor of Pharmacogenetics (2013). He is working at the Dept. Clinical Chemistry at the Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He is Director of the International (IFCC) Reference Center for Pharmacogenetics and he leads the Unit Research & Development of the Dept. Clinical Chemistry. He is also responsible for laboratory testing in Emergency Medicine and Cardiology, and is involved in development of new prostate cancer biomarkers.