Karin De Winter - De Groot

Karin De Winter - De Groot

Karin de Winter is a pediatric pulmonologist and member of the staff of the Department of Pediatric Pulmonology and Cystic Fibrosis Center of the Wilhelmina Children’s Hospital – Universitary Medical Center Utrecht (WKZ-UMCU) since May 2009. In 2019 she graduated on a thesis on clinical validation of intestinal organoids as biomarker of CFTR function and on the dynamics of respiratory and gastrointestinal microbiota in subjects with CF. For this thesis she received in 2020 the prof. Swieringa Thesis Award of the Dutch Respiratory Society (NRS).

The research interest of Karin de Winter focusses on rare genetic respiratory diseases (CF and PCD). Together with colleagues of the Beekman lab she developed a diagnostic route to respond to (inter)national requests for difficult diagnosis in CF or rare/unknown CFTR mutations using organoid measurements. She is member of the medical ethical committee in Utrecht (METC-United) and she chairs the Dutch pediatric pulmonology society (SKL) and the advisory board of newborn screening of CF (ANHS-CF). Furthermore, she is (core group) member of several committees of the European CF society (ECFS) and ERN-LUNG.