Bert van der Vegt was born in Ureterp (The Netherlands) in 1979 and completed medical school at the University of Groningen in 2005. He finished his residency in pathology at the University MedicaI Center of Groningen (UMCG), the Netherlands, in 2012. In that year, he became a staff member at the Department of Pathology at the UMCG, specializing in breast and head and neck pathology. He finalized his Ph.D. thesis on the use of tissue microarrays in breast cancer research in 2012. His diagnostic activities now cover the whole spectrum of breast and head and neck pathology. His long-term research interests particularly relate to the tumor biological aspects of breast cancer and head/neck cancers. He collaborates with various departments within the University Medical Center Groningen e.g. medical oncology, epidemiology, and surgery. He also participates in various national collaborative research groups on these subjects.
