Dr. Henriett Butz, MD, PhD works as a clinical geneticist and molecular diagnostics specialist with extensive expertise in hereditary cancer syndromes and tumorigenesis. She earned her medical degree and PhD in Clinical Medical Sciences from Semmelweis University, where she later specialized in medical laboratory diagnostics, molecular genetic diagnostics, and clinical genetics. She completed post-doctoral training in the The Keenan Research Centre for Biomedical Science of St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, and in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto.

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Dr. Butz currently serves as the head of the Biobank Centre for Oncology at the National Institute of Oncology and is a chief physician in clinical genetics and molecular genetic diagnostics. She is also a senior research fellow at the Oncogenomics Research Group (HUN-REN) and a principal investigator at Semmelweis University’s Department of Laboratory Medicine. Her research focuses on genetic and epigenetic mechanisms in cancer, the role of non-coding RNAs, and translational applications of next-generation sequencing.

Through her research, teaching, and clinical contributions, Dr. Butz continues to advance precision oncology, bridging molecular research with patient care.