Sander Pajusalu

Sander Pajusalu, MD, PhD, is a head of the Genetics and Personalized Medicine Clinic at the Tartu University Hospital and an associate professor of clinical genetics at the Tartu University in Estonia. He graduated from Tartu University as an MD in 2013 and completed his PhD studies as well as the medical genetics residency program at the same university in 2017. From 2018 to 2020, he was a postdoctoral associate and fellow at the Yale University School of Medicine, where he worked with Professor Monkol Lek. Sander Pajusalu has been involved in implementing novel diagnostic methods like next-generation sequencing into routine healthcare in Estonia. He has co-authored more than 50 peer-reviewed research publications on different topics in the field of rare genetic disorders. He is a member of the Estonian Young Academy of Sciences and the Estonian, European and American Societies of Human Genetics. He is a founding member and the first president of the Estonian Society of Personalized Medicine.