Nationality
Netherlands

Year of Birth
1957

1982
University of Utrecht, M.Sc. in Biology

1984
University of Utrecht, M.D. 

1985
University of Utrecht, Ph.D.

1985–1989
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston MA, Postdoctoral Fellow Pathology, Cox Terhorst Lab

1989–1991
University of Utrecht, Assistant Professor, Department of Clinical Immunology, Lecturer in Clinical Immunology

1991–2002
University of Utrecht, Dept. of Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, Professor and Chairman

2002–2012
Hubrecht Institute, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Utrecht, Head Director

Since 2002
University of Utrecht, Professor in Molecular Genetics

2002–2022
Hubrecht Institute, Utrecht, (continued as advisor beyond March 2022), Principal Investigator of a research group of ~25 scientists

2012–2015
Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences, Utrecht, President

2015–2019
Princess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology, Utrecht, Director Research

2015–2022
Princess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology, Utrecht, Principal lnvestigator of a research group (continued as advisor beyond 2022)

2019–2022
Roche Holding Ltd., Member of the Board of Directors

Since 2022
Roche Basel, Head of Pharma Research and Early Development (pRED)

2005–2015
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research (ISREC), Lausanne

2006–2008
President of the International Society of Differentiation (ISD)

2012–2015
Member of the board of the American Association for Cancer Research

2014–2020
Chief Scientific Officer der HUB Organoids Technology, Utrecht

2015–2021
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), Vienna

Since 2016
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Francis Crick Institute, London

2016–2021
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Decibel Therapeutics, Boston

2016–2022
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board and co-founder of Surrozen, San Francisco

2016–2020
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Kallyope, New York

2017–2018
President of the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR)

2018–2021
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Merus, Utrecht

2020–2022
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board and co-founder of Xilis, North Carolina

2021–2022
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board and co-founder of D1 Med, Shanghai

2021–2021
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Volastra, New York

2000
Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences (KNAW), Amsterdam

2014
National Academy of Sciences of the USA, Washington

2016
Academie des Sciences de I 'Institut de France, Paris

2017
Orden Pour le Mérite für Wissenschaften und Künste, Berlin

2019
The Royal Society, London

2019
The Royal Society, Edinburgh

2000
Catharijne-prize for medical research, Utrecht

2001
Award from the European Society for Clinical Investigation, Nice

2001
Spinoza Award of the Netherlands Reserach Council (NWO, Den Haag)

2004
Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland

2005
The Science and Society Prize, Amsterdam

2005
The French honor of “Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur” 

2005
Katharine Berkan Judd Award, New York

2006
Rabbi Shai Shacknai Memorial Prize for Immunology and Cancer Research, Jerusalem

2008
Josephine Nefkens Prize for Cancer Research (Erasmus MC, Rotterdam)

2008
Meyenburg Cancer Research Award, Germany

2009
The Queen Wilhelmina Dutch Cancer Society Award, Amsterdam

2010
The United European Gastroenterology Federation (UEGF) Research Prize

2011
The Ernst Jung Medical Award, Germany

2011
Kolff prize, Amsterdam

2012
Association pour la Recherche sur le Cancer (ARC) Léopold Griffuel Prize, Paris

2012
William Beaumont prize of the American Gastroenterology Association (USA)

2012
The Heineken Prize for Medicine, Amsterdam

2012
Knight in the Order of the Nederlands' Lion

2013
The Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, San Francisco

2014
Massachusetts General Hospital Award in Cancer Research, Massachusetts

2014
Fellow of the AACR Academy, Washington

2014
Struyvenberg European Society for Clinical Investigation (ESCI) medal, Utrecht

2014
National Icon of the Netherlands, Amsterdam

2015
ISSCR-McEwen Award for Innovation, San Francisco

2016
The Academy Professor Prize of the Royal Netherlands Academy, Amsterdam

2016
Kazemi Award for Research Excellence in Bio-Medicine, Teheran

2016
The Körber European Science Prize, Germany

2016
Swammerdam medaille, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2016
The Ilse & Helmut Wachter award, Hamburg, Germany

2017
Princess Takamatsu Award of Merit, Tokyo, Japan

2017
Großes Verdienstkreuz mit Stern, Germany

2018
Academia Europaea Erasmus Medal, Barcelona, Spain

2019
Keio Medical Science Prize, Tokyo, Japan

2019
Citation Laureate, Web of Science Group 

2021
Pezcoller Foundation-AACR International Award

2022
Ammodo Science Award

2022
Taobuk da Vinci Science Award

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