Vera Deneer

Vera Deneer is associate professor, hospital pharmacist – clinical pharmacologist at University Medical Center Utrecht (UMC Utrecht) and at Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences (UIPS), division of Pharmacoepidemiology & Clinical Pharmacology. She is chair of the Dutch Pharmacogenetics Working Group (DPWG).

Her clinical interests are in the field of cardiovascular disease, lung disease, including lung cancer, the implementation of pharmacogenetics in daily clinical practice, drug safety and medication management. Her research is on personalised medicine by studying the influence of biomarkers such as genetic variants, patient characteristics and clinical parameters on the effects of drugs in terms of efficacy and safety with the main focus on lung cancer, cardiovascular disease, psychiatric diseases, immune mediated inflammatory diseases.

She is the principal investigator or co-investigator of several research projects on personalised medicine, some of them funded by The Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development.

Updated: September 2025