- Profile: Mek - Alexander Griekspoor
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Name: Griekspoor Firstnames: Alexander Christiaan Degree: PhD Nationality: Dutch Date of Birth: July 15, 1977 Birthplace: Amstelveen, The Netherlands Girlfriend: Tânia (Portuguesa) Hometown: Cambridge, UK Email: mek at mekentosj.com Twitter: mekentosj 
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- Profile: Matt - Matthew J. Wood
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Name: Wood Firstnames: Matthew James Degree: PhD Nationality: British Date of Birth: July 4, 1979 Birthplace: Cambridge, UK Girlfriend: Nell Hometown: Cambridge, UK Email: matt at mekentosj.com Twitter: mza 
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- Profile: Charles - Charles G. Parnot
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Name: Parnot Firstnames: Charles Georges Degree: PhD Nationality: French Date of Birth: Early 70s Wife: Veronique Hometown: Palo Alto CA, USA Email: charles at mekentosj.com Twitter: cparnot
- Profile: Tosj - Tom Groothuis
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Name: Groothuis Firstnames: Tom Alphonsus Maria Degree: PhD Nationality: Dutch Date of Birth: September 23, 1977 Birthplace: Ootmarsum, The Netherlands Wife: Henrieke Hometown: De Lutte, The Netherlands Email: tosj at mekentosj.com Website: paroost.com Click to download curriculum vitae
- How it all started...
In the summer of 1995 Tom and Alex both signed up for the study Medical Biology at the Free University in Amsterdam. Tom is originally from Twente a region in the east of The Netherlands, while Alex lived in Aalsmeer, a flower city not to far from Amsterdam. They became good friends pretty soon afterwards. After their study they both ended up at The Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI) in 2000, where they did their PhDs together. They received their degrees in November 2006, after which Alex moved to Cambridge in the UK for a postdoc at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) while Tom moved back to Twente for a postdoc at the University of Twente. While Tom continues to pursue an academic career, Alex decided that what started as Mek&Tosj would become Mekentosj Inc, and lives the indie-life.
In March 2009 Matt decided to leave his position at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Cambridge and join the team to push limits further and create revolutionary new software for scientists. And Charles followed in May, giving up his job as Chief Scientist at a Stanford startup to start on a great new adventure.