Dr Wera Hofmann is an expert in biochemistry and has over 12 years of human 
genetic diagnostics experience. Until 2006, she supervised a diagnostic unit for 
BRCA gene testing at the Interdisciplinary Center for Hereditary Breast Cancer 
(Max Delbrück Center, Berlin, Germany). She has also been the Managing Director 
of the Professional Association of German Human Geneticists, BVDH, which is a 
trade association. In 2008, Hofmann became a Medical Director at LifeCodexx 
(Konstanz, Germany), where she has worked on the development of a noninvasive 
prenatal diagnostic test that detects chromosomal aneuploidies in fetuses.